When your legs drag during pregnancy, this is almost the most popular complaint among expectant mothers. Pregnancy is a huge test for the body; during this period, a woman changes both physically and mentally. No expectant mother wants to experience discomfort during pregnancy, but this is not always possible to avoid.
A girl’s body undergoes changes in this position: hormonal levels, internal organs, all systems and tissues. All this can cause inconvenience to the expectant mother. The most common complaint of pregnant girls is swelling and nagging pain in the legs, occurring both day and night. The entire period of pregnancy is different for each woman, and the nature of these pains can be different. The causes of such pain and ways to get rid of them.
The best and correct solution would be to contact a specialist. Most medications cannot be taken during pregnancy, so there is no need to self-medicate. Only a doctor can correctly determine the cause of pain and prescribe the correct treatment. For varicose veins, he will prescribe special ointments and gels for massage to eliminate unpleasant symptoms.
It is worth paying attention to your diet, adding more proteins to the menu (fish, cheese, meat, beans, bananas). Be sure to consume more foods high in calcium, such as milk, sour cream or cottage cheese. You should eat food often and in small portions. Limit your consumption of starchy and sweet foods, exclude spicy and fatty foods from your diet, monitor your body weight, and try to avoid excessive weight gain. Reduce the salt content in dishes and do not drink excessive amounts of liquid.
If unpleasant symptoms appear, you need to use bandages, special underwear and hosiery specifically for pregnant women.
Take baths with oils, sea salt or herbs to relax your muscles. Massage your feet often and reduce the stress on your lower limbs.
If possible, walk barefoot more often, especially on grass, sand or pebbles. Get as much sun exposure as possible to provide your body with vitamin D.
Get plenty of rest and sleep mostly lying on your left side. At night, place pillows under your feet and try to sleep on your left side. This will help reduce or completely eliminate pain.
You can perform special exercises for pregnant women; the “Bicycle” exercise is very useful. Swimming, yoga, and gymnastics have a positive effect on the body of pregnant women. But before performing any exercises, you need to consult a specialist.
Everyone knows that heavy objects should not be carried in a delicate position; this rule should not be neglected!
It is very difficult for pregnant women to choose the right medications, because most of them are contraindicated during pregnancy, but, of course, there are medications that help reduce discomfort in the legs without harming the baby.
All medications and dosages must be prescribed by a doctor.
Traditional medicine methods you can try:
Due to the fact that during pregnancy the mother's body weight increases significantly, the lower limbs receive additional stress. Also in the pregnant woman’s body there is a lack of vitamins, microelements and calcium, as well as excess fluid and salt. There is no clear answer to the occurrence of these pains; there are several causes of their occurrence and several treatment methods.
Do not panic and self-medicate; it is better to consult a doctor as soon as possible. Most cramps go away immediately after childbirth; due to the pressure of the uterus, these pains are natural.
In any case, if the expectant mother experiences discomfort and pain in her legs, she needs to see a specialist as soon as possible, who will give advice and, if necessary, prescribe treatment. During pregnancy, you need to pay increased attention to your health and do not forget about timely visits to the doctor.
Pain in the leg from the hip to the foot can be caused by various diseases. Periodic or constant sensations can occur as a result of traumatic injuries, degenerative changes in the structure of bones and joints, or excessive physical exertion. The causes of leg pain depend on the frequency and distribution. Using them, you can determine what disease caused this condition. This may be intervertebral hernia and disc protrusion, osteochondrosis and scoliosis.
Pulling sensations occur with varicose veins, disturbances in the functioning of nerves, restless legs syndrome, arthrosis of the leg joints and coxarthrosis, osteomyelitis. A common cause of this condition is traumatic or infectious damage to ligaments, muscles and tendons. The pain can be acute or nagging, spreading along the length of the leg, and depends on the degree of the disease.
A nagging pain in the leg is often felt at rest with varicose veins. The pain may extend to the calves, where the veins are particularly prominent. When walking, the pain intensifies and can radiate to the hip or knee. Therefore, if you pull your leg, you should consult a doctor to prevent the development of the disease.
A sedentary lifestyle leads to stagnation of blood in the vessels and veins of the legs. Pain is felt when starting to move. This is commonly called “goosebumps”. The stabbing sensation in the muscles goes away quite quickly as soon as blood circulation returns to normal. Doctors do not consider this phenomenon a disease. But with constantly recurring sensations, stagnation of blood in the tissues of the legs can lead to varicose veins, muscle atrophy and vascular diseases in the legs.
Spinal pathologies in most cases are marked not only by pain in the back, but also in the legs. Statistics call osteochondrosis the most common disease. A defect in the intervertebral discs, their wear and destruction leads to pain in the legs from the hip to the foot.
Osteochondrosis of the spine and joints of the knee and pelvis, as well as accompanying changes in the area of nerve endings, can cause sharp, severe pain from the hip to the foot. Losing their functions, the intervertebral discs pinch the nerves, and the pain can spread to any part of the back and legs. Restriction of movement during severe pain causes inflammation of the sciatic nerve, which is associated with osteochondrosis. This creates the feeling that a thin thread is pulling the leg muscles from the buttocks to the foot.
Coxarthrosis of the hip joint
Diseases of the hip and knee joint can cause pain in one specific joint or spread throughout the leg. The pain intensifies with movement and exercise. Osteoarthritis and arthritis are registered in more than a quarter of patient visits with complaints of pain in the legs. More than half of those who applied were women over 40.
Due to the curvature of the spine, the distribution of load on different parts of the skeleton also changes. This can cause your legs to suffer. With exertion, the pain intensifies and can spread from the hip to the foot.
Additional stress on the spine comes from changes in the foot itself. Whether it is flat feet or varus foot, the higher parts of the musculoskeletal system try to compensate for the deformation, working to the limit of their capabilities. And this, in turn, can cause pain in the legs when walking and at rest.
Leg pain accompanies almost all injuries. Regardless of whether the spine or a single joint is damaged, pain can be a constant presence in a person's life. Until the underlying disease is cured.
A disease called restless legs syndrome has an unclear etiology. Doctors are inclined to believe that nagging or stabbing pain during sleep is caused by a number of reasons. Most often, involuntary movements and pain when falling asleep are associated with the work of blood vessels and psychosomatic reasons.
To determine the exact cause of pain and get rid of it, you should not try all possible home treatment methods. Even similar manifestations of leg pain can be caused by completely different reasons. Only a professional can make an accurate diagnosis. Sometimes, identifying the cause requires examination by several doctors.
Modern research methods include clinical blood and urine tests. You can’t do without x-rays and ultrasound examinations. Often, pain in the legs is associated with swelling due to heart failure and kidney pathology. Therefore, treatment should be aimed primarily at correcting the functioning of the diseased organ. Computed tomography is used to determine changes in the spine and joints.
If pain in the legs is only an echo of the underlying disease associated with problems of internal organs and skeleton, then they do not require separate drug treatment. In most cases, it is enough to adjust the load on the legs and change the mode of mobility and rest. Walking in the fresh air, swimming and light physical activity are useful to strengthen the leg muscles. Often, various external ointments and gels with a cooling or warming effect are used to relieve pain in the legs.
Both women and men sometimes encounter this symptom: pulling their legs at night, the reasons are not clear and therefore begin to bother them. The source of pain can be one or more diseases. Only a doctor can put a complex of symptoms into a holistic clinical picture. He will also recommend the correct treatment to eliminate the disease itself. If the pain recurs frequently or lasts more than 3 days, it is imperative to contact a specialist to examine the body and identify pathology.
Nagging pain in the legs is sometimes accompanied by a burning sensation, convulsive reactions, swelling of the skin on the lower extremities, various skin irritations, numbness of one or both extremities. Diseases that cause nagging pain in the legs at night can lead to serious complications in the absence of adequate treatment. It is this disease that needs to be treated, for which it is very important to diagnose it correctly. Sometimes relatively healthy people experience similar discomfort in their legs. Each such symptom cannot be ignored, so as not to trigger the disease, because it can develop both from its incorrect understanding and treatment, and because measures are not taken in time, in the first stages, to localize and eliminate the reasons why it arose.
In cases of such leg pain, the causes are usually associated with one or more diseases from the spectrum of the following diseases:
All of the listed pathologies and conditions suggest as one of the symptoms a feeling of heaviness and fatigue in the legs. To determine the cause of this discomfort, it is necessary to determine the exact location of the pain. Pain may be in the following places:
Pain with a pulling effect can also be associated with previous injuries, stretching of the calf muscle/muscles or tendons. If muscle or bone tissue was injured, joints were damaged, ligaments were dislocated or sprained, or there were any bruises, then the pain is most likely a consequence of these incidents.
Vascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis, varicose veins, diabetic angiopathy, cause circulatory disorders, loss of elasticity in blood vessels due to stagnation of blood, accumulation of oxidation products and breakdown in muscle fibers. At the initial stage of this group of diseases, it is difficult to notice their external signs. The latter manifest themselves significantly in advanced cases: the skin becomes thinner, and the pattern of blood vessels is clearly visible on them. If measures are not taken in a timely manner, trophic ulcers and even amputation of a limb may occur. To accurately diagnose these diseases, it is necessary to undergo examination by a vascular surgeon.
Pain due to vascular diseases often occurs in people whose profession involves constant standing or sitting. Vascular diseases are the most common cause of such pathology in the lower extremities.
One of the common reasons why legs are pulled is diseases of the spine. When the nerve endings in the spinal column are damaged, shooting pains can radiate to the lower part of the body. They are aching and long lasting.
They usually do not depend on the time of day, occur not only at night and not only during any physical activity, and are difficult to relieve pain. There may be unpleasant, pulling sensations in the lower back and back of the pelvis, and cramps. Most often, with this pathology, nagging pain is asymmetrical: it is present only in one limb, but cases of bilateral localization of pain are also recorded.
Usually, osteochondrosis consequences in the legs are not accompanied by discomfort in the muscles. Correct diagnosis of the disease and appropriately selected correct therapy can reduce or eliminate these unpleasant symptoms in a fairly short time.
With a lack of substances such as potassium, magnesium, calcium in the body, the human body can react with myalgia or night cramps in the legs. A general blood test is needed to determine which substances are missing and what needs to be replenished through vitamin therapy. Taking vitamin and mineral preparations that include vitamin C and missing microelements allows you to eliminate these symptoms in a fairly short period of time. To prevent the manifestation of a deficiency of these substances in the body, it is necessary to carefully monitor your diet, including various substances that are beneficial to the body. You should not abuse diets.
Emotional stress and severe stress can also cause hypertension and discomfort in the legs. Mental stress sometimes provokes physical illness. Restless legs syndrome occurs predominantly in women and older people. Mental instability and severe fatigue sometimes cause a nervous breakdown. The leg muscles do not relax, but are tense, the lower limbs require movement even at night, and severe pain in the legs occurs when falling asleep.
Alcohol, fatty foods against the background of professional overload of the body, stress lead to the appearance of this syndrome in fairly young people, especially with mental instability and hereditary predisposition. This syndrome is often diagnosed in women who have undergone comprehensive diagnostics, which have not revealed any disturbances in the functioning of the endocrine system, blood vessels, or have not confirmed varicose veins or other diseases. The culprit is a mental state that does not allow the body to relax without causing any internal physical changes.
Varicose veins and endarteritis have similar symptoms, so a comprehensive examination of the person is necessary to exclude them. At the first stage, when symptoms of this syndrome occur, a properly selected set of exercises should be used to achieve muscle relaxation, allowing the body to relax and rest for a sufficiently long period. It is necessary to distance yourself from stressful situations and control your emotions.
Chronic or acute intoxication sometimes causes severe pain in the legs. Pain is caused by muscle hypertrophy or breakdown processes in them due to the accumulation of toxic substances in the muscle fibers. Intoxication itself is caused by both colds in acute manifestations, and infections, pathology in the activity of the kidneys. Harmful ketone bodies, which, if the functioning of the urinary system organs are disrupted, are not excreted from the body, along with oxygen entering the blood, combine with lactic acid (toxin). Toxic lactic acid, combining with ketone bodies, forms collagen fibers, which cause nagging pain.
To identify intoxication, both a general and biochemical blood test, as well as an ultrasound of the kidneys, are necessary. A urine test is also necessary. It is necessary to exclude or confirm gout or diseases in which metabolic disorders are detected, since they have symptoms similar to intoxication. Therapy in case of intoxication is complex and carried out in a hospital. It is necessary to achieve detoxification of the body and eliminate the cause of the disease.
The following processes can be noted that lead to the same sensations:
Pregnancy can also cause similar discomfort in the legs. During pregnancy, a woman’s body weight naturally increases, and the load on the body as a whole and on the legs increases. With the wrong diet and physical activity, excessive stress on the lower body can lead to varicose veins.
Pain in the legs does not always have serious consequences. There is usually no cause for concern if the leg pulls at night after heavy loads on the calf muscles, for example, after playing sports (especially after a long break) or exercising in the gym, or overexertion in the pool. Such pain in women is sometimes a consequence of standing for a long time or walking in heels during the day and is caused by tired legs. These pains are short-lived and pass quickly. If they do not stop after a short period of time or recur repeatedly, you should be examined by a doctor and identify the source of the pain.
Insomnia, a feeling of endless tension, unpleasant sensations, some nerve nodes do not allow the muscles to relax. All these feelings are familiar to each of us. Why nagging pains occur in the lower extremities and how to cope with them are of interest to our site visitors. We decided not to put everything off and turned to the First Moscow State Medical University for advice. Our interlocutor kindly agreed to be Olga Nikolaevna Voskresenskaya, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Nervous Diseases of the I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical University, Head of the Neurological Department of the Clinic of Nervous Diseases named after A. Ya. Kozhevnikov.
Question: Good afternoon, Olga Nikolaevna! Many people complain that after a hard day they feel heavy in their legs, sometimes even during sleep they cannot relax. The calf part causes particular discomfort. Why do my legs pull in my calves at night?
Answer: Hello! In fact, determining the cause of nagging pain in the calf based on symptomatic signs is a very difficult task. For a detailed examination, it is necessary to conduct a clear diagnosis. In my opinion, the cause of concern can be caused by various diseases associated with venous vessels, damage to nerve trunks, pathological abnormalities in the spinal column, as well as other forms of manifestation. In addition, restless legs may be a cause-and-effect relationship with certain abnormalities in the endocrine system, for example, diabetes. In any case, if symptomatic signs make themselves felt for a long time, then it is necessary to undergo a diagnostic examination.
A common neurological disease that affects large and medium arterial vessels, arising as a result of functional structural changes in protein and lipid metabolism, contributing to circulatory disorders. The appearance of atheromatous plaques in connective tissues is a characteristic feature of the disease, which leads to vascular deformation or complete obstruction (blockage) of blood vessels.
Question: Please tell me what to do if pain in the calves occurs spontaneously, that is, as a result of incorrect positioning of the leg, or due to physical activity, a dull pain is felt. The legs cause particular concern in people with an active lifestyle. What to do if your leg muscles hurt?
Answer: After prolonged physical activity, a person may experience some discomfort associated with poor circulation in the arteries. A familiar condition when after training your legs become weak and your whole body hurts. This is a normal phenomenon; after some time, the blood supply returns to normal and the neuromuscular system begins to function in the same rhythm. It is much worse when muscle tone is not restored for a long time. Blood flow slows down, which can cause the formation of thrombophlebitis.
As a result of venous inflammation of the walls of blood vessels, a blood clot is formed, which violates the integrity of the vascular walls, changes the composition of the blood and, due to the formation of a blood clot, blocks them from passing through.
Question: Olga Nikolaevna, are there any products, tablets or creams that strengthen the calf system? Is it possible that some vitamins or medicinal herbs can cleanse the blood vessels in the legs?
Answer: Treatment of nagging pain in the legs is a complex medical process that requires qualified medical care. Of course, traditional medicine will help improve the condition of the gastrocnemius system. However, I would recommend that if you have pain, you trust the treatment to practicing doctors. Various newfangled alternative medicine recipes can provoke other diseases.
Question: Due to the nature of my work, I often have to move around. After moving for many hours, my legs simply fall off. Often, in addition to the calf part, pain occurs in the knee. Of particular concern are attacks of pain in the popliteal region. Please tell me what are the reasons why the legs are pulled from behind?
Answer: First, you need to check the condition of the popliteal capsule, or bursa. It is possible that the fragile ligaments of the popliteal muscles are damaged. There are a fairly large number of symptomatic signs that cause knee joint disease. These include:
Everything requires a thorough examination. Today there are a sufficient number of highly qualified specialists in the field of neuralgia who are able to provide proper medical care.
Disease of the joints, provoking further inflammation and/or tissue degeneration of the tendons. A diverse range of cause-and-effect relationships for the occurrence of the disease can be caused by an infectious lesion, mechanical damage to the joints, metabolic disorders, rheumatic conditions, severe physical overload and other factors.
Question: Olga Nikolaevna, is there any connection between pain in the legs and chronic diseases?
Answer: Of course, such a connection exists. Patients with vegetative-vascular dysfunctions of the heart and brain are of particular concern. Structural disorders of the central peripheral parts of the autonomic nervous system can affect the venous outflow of blood in the legs and provoke various forms of vascular disease. By the way, with hypertension, that is, high blood pressure, the vessels of the legs are also the most vulnerable place.
Question: Olga Nikolaevna, are there any preventive measures that can prevent pain in the legs?
Answer: Despite the fact that pain in the legs is a consequence of various overloads, I would not recommend focusing on this. Naturally, if there are no special reasons that require medical intervention, then the best prevention of leg pain will be simple physical exercise. For the purpose of therapeutic and preventive measures, we can recommend walks in the fresh air, hardening the body with the help of contrast dousing. Not least important in the prevention of vascular diseases in the legs is proper nutrition. Food products balanced in mineral and vitamin content can improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, and as a result normalize blood flow in the vessels. In conclusion, I would like to give a little advice: if your feet hurt, get a dog. This will be the best way to maintain your body in healthy muscle tone, in which you will strengthen not only the muscles of your legs, but also your heart.
Why they can pull their legs and what to do if a similar problem arises.
Leg muscles can pull for various reasons:
- varicose veins in the legs;
- problems with the urinary tract;
— insufficient amount of magnesium and/or calcium in the blood;
- hemorrhoids or varicose veins of the pelvis;
— infringement of nerve endings;
- the initial stage of obliterating endarteritis.
Your legs are dragging due to ordinary fatigue, which means you need to rest. In the case where this is caused by the above diseases, you will have to consult a specialist. Different diseases require different treatment methods:
1. Acute pain in the lower leg, accompanied by numbness while walking, may be symptoms of atherosclerosis. Especially if they disappear during a short rest and return after a while. Pain in the feet or calves often bothers you at rest. To prevent your legs from hurting, you will have to give up bad habits. Diagnosis is carried out during ultrasound and MRI. The treatment is angioplasty.
2. Compressive pain, the appearance of cramps during movement, cold feet even in the summer, is there no clear pulsation on the big toe? All this may indicate endarteritis. Legs are pulled with endarteritis, what should I do? For smokers, get rid of the bad habit. The specialist will prescribe an MRI, blood donation, and ultrasound. In case of unbearable pain, it is better to call an ambulance, because it can be caused by blockage of the arteries.
3. Acute pain while walking or standing that appears in the joints, their deformation indicates the development of arthritis (arthrosis). You will need a consultation with a rheumatologist, a blood test, and an x-ray. Treatment is medicinal, physiotherapeutic, orthopedic devices can also be used.
4. With thrombophlebitis, continuous pain is felt in the calf muscles, often followed by a burning sensation. It is accompanied by swelling, redness, and compaction in the vein area. In such cases, you need to contact a phlebologist and conduct an angioscan. Patients are often treated on an outpatient basis.
5. Problems with the genitourinary system are accompanied by pain in the hips. In this case, you need to do an ultrasound.
6. The consequences of fractures are often pain in the lower extremities during movement. In this case, you will have to wear orthoses, which will take part of the load on yourself.
7. Nocturnal cramps at night, itching, swelling, a feeling of weakness, tingling can be observed in diabetes mellitus. You should visit a doctor and take a blood sugar test.
8. Sharp pain in the heel during movement occurs due to heel spurs. Consultation with an orthopedist, x-ray, and those who are overweight will have to lose weight.
9. If there is a lack of calcium and magnesium, the doctor will prescribe medications containing them.
From time to time, all people face the problem of leg pain. Why the legs are pulled, the reasons can be different: due to fatigue, due to some kind of disease. Now we will try to figure out why the legs are pulled, since there are many serious diseases in which the leg muscles are pulled, which affect the joints, muscles, spine or blood vessels.
The cause of nagging pain in the legs may be:
Many people complain that their legs drag during pregnancy. This is an indicator that the body lacks essential microelements and vitamins. As a rule, there is a deficiency of vitamins such as E, D, potassium, calcium, magnesium and others. To eliminate or at least alleviate these symptoms, use a balanced diet and a complex of vitamins. Meals must include foods such as milk, cottage cheese, cheese, buckwheat, almonds, pine nuts, beans, oatmeal and fresh fruits and vegetables.
But before engaging in self-diagnosis and self-medication, a pregnant woman should definitely consult a doctor, since the health of the child directly depends on the state of the mother’s health and there can be no trifles here.
You can try to prevent pain and heaviness in the legs, or, if the disease has already developed, reduce its intensity. To do this, you need to assess your health, conduct an examination, and, if necessary, adjust your lifestyle and follow all doctors’ recommendations.
For vascular problems, it is necessary to adhere to a diet that lowers cholesterol levels, eliminate fatty foods, do therapeutic exercises to prevent the development of varicose veins, and fight excess weight. If the work is sedentary, you need to take breaks more often, changing your body position.
If there is a disease of the joints or spine, it is necessary to consult a doctor, carry out therapeutic exercises aimed at reducing the load on the diseased joints and spine, and conduct regular massage.
If there is pain in the leg muscles, a visit to a rheumatologist or traumatologist is required; for women, additional consultation with a phlebologist is necessary.
Lead a correct, healthy lifestyle, take care of your health, consult a doctor on time and be healthy!
Pain in the calf muscles is a phenomenon that almost every person faces, because it is quite common. Moreover, the reasons for pain in the calves of the legs can be different, so the exact cause in men can only be determined by a specialist, who will select the appropriate treatment.
If the day before you resorted to various physical activities, you can always encounter such an unpleasant situation as pain in the calves. If you have been running vigorously in the morning for several days, it will appear in any case, and it will be aching, annoying and long-lasting. But as soon as the body can get used to the stress to which you expose it, it will disappear.
Often pain is accompanied by one or another disease, the most common is considered to be thrombophlebitis. This is one of the current vascular diseases.
In this case, the pain will definitely not go away; keep in mind that it will become even stronger every day, so it is imperative to take therapeutic measures. The factors that provoke the development of thrombophlebitis can be different: these can be various infections, overexertion, lack of vitamins, tight shoes, etc. The true cause can be found out and excluded only after the necessary examinations.
Atherosclerosis is a chronic disease of the arteries of the muscular-elastic type. The pain syndrome in this case will intensify when walking, there is one more difference - the feet seem to be constantly cold.
Myositis is one of the common diseases, in this case there is inflammation of the human skeletal muscles. As a result, a person experiences increasing and persistent pain in the area where the lesion is located. In addition, muscle weakness increases over time. All this will result in muscle atrophy and serious mobility problems.
Today, people who suffer from osteomyelitis often face this problem. This disease is characterized by purulent tissue damage; it develops not only in the bones, but also in the bone marrow.
It is important to know that this disease is caused not only by various mycobacteria, but also by pathogenic bacteria. But as statistics show, and according to experts, this disease is usually encountered by children under the age of one year, for whom it is being treated.
It is worth adding that men often face a disease such as fibromyalgia. This disease is not recognized by all specialists, but nevertheless, 4% of the world's population has this diagnosis. This is asymmetrical musculoskeletal pain that is exclusively chronic. As a result, weakness, depression, a feeling of depression, poor sleep, chronic fatigue, etc. occur. This disease is characterized by pain throughout the body, including the calves, and is also accompanied by increased sensitivity.
In addition, we should never forget about cramps; they are also often the main cause of this disease. Cramps can occur for a variety of reasons, but they are generally due to overworking of the calf muscle. Wanting to get rid of such an unpleasant sensation, you need to relax the muscle, after which relief comes.
By the way, cramps are usually not a cause for concern. And this is normal if we are talking about an isolated case.
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Venous insufficiency results in dysfunction of the venous valves. This leads to serious stagnation of blood in the veins, after which the walls of the veins begin to thin out, and their lumen increases.
It is important to take into account that venous stagnation is dangerous because the so-called sweating of the liquid part of the blood begins to occur, the process occurs exclusively through the walls of blood vessels, which means you need to realize that as a result all this leads to compression of the tissue, this leads to the formation of pain in this area. areas. During sleep, a person’s legs are warmed, and the veins expand, which means that the pain will intensify in any case. Convulsions are possible.
It is important to consider that pain in the calf muscles is often aggravated by thermal procedures. Remember that baths, saunas, and hot foot baths are strictly contraindicated.
Pain that will be caused by impaired arterial circulation, as a rule, is characteristic only of the stronger sex. And as statistics show, it is usually men who complain about this disease. This disease is most often encountered by older people, but sometimes by quite young people.
In any case, it is necessary to take immediate action, because during this disease the lumen of the small arteries of the legs gradually begins to decrease, trophic disorders appear, and you may encounter such a serious consequence as gangrene of the extremities.
This disease causes severe pain while walking, and it becomes more intense at night. If you notice that they intensify while walking, you should not delay this; in any case, you need to seek help from a doctor who will find out the true cause of the pain and prescribe appropriate treatment.
Often the cause of pain in the calves is also pain that is associated with spinal disorders, and there are a huge number of them. For example, you can encounter such a disease during osteochondrosis; usually in this case the pain is aching, constant and acute transient.
We cannot exclude those reasons that are caused by various injuries and muscle diseases. After all, this is usually the main reason that people complain of pain in their calves.
Most often, young people face this situation, and more and more often. After all, a normal sprain can lead to pain in the calf muscles, and as you know, all athletes face such sprains during competitions, and even training, and encounter such troubles several times.
These are the main causes of pain in the calves of the legs in men. Of course, women also face this problem, so in any case, if you have ailments that do not go away for a long time, you should seek help from specialists. This is the only way to perform a high-quality diagnosis, choose the right treatment, and forget about this problem forever.
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