What causes calf muscle pain?

The problem of muscle pain is very common in normal times. Almost everyone has encountered this symptom, and muscle pain can occur in many areas, from cervical muscles to calf muscles. Calf muscle pain is especially likely to occur and has the greatest impact on patients. Let’s take a look at what causes calf muscle pain. I hope everyone can understand this explanation.

There are many causes of calf pain, including poor local circulation, peripheral vascular disease or varicose veins in the feet. The ambient temperature changes suddenly. Inadequate amounts of minerals (such as magnesium and calcium) in the diet. The incidence of certain chronic diseases and pregnant women will also increase. Hypothyroidism, uremia, or other medical illnesses. Motor neurone disease, radiculopathy, or peripheral neuropathy. Some blood pressure and lipid-lowering drugs can also cause symptoms.

The dangers of calf pain

Long-term pain will not only aggravate the disease, but also cause mental distress, easily leading to depression, temperament, and personality changes. It will also cause dysfunction of the human nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, digestive, respiratory and other systems, leading to other complications, with serious consequences. The greatest harm caused by pain is not death, but reduced quality of life. Although pain will not kill people, many people voluntarily give up their lives because of pain.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that calf fatigue and soreness are mostly related to qi deficiency. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it may be caused by external factors such as wind, cold, and dampness, or by internal factors such as excessive anger, thinking, and fear, or by neither external nor internal factors such as excessive sexual intercourse, which damages the kidney's essence and qi, external injuries to the tendons and bones, and eating damp or cold foods that damage the spleen.

What to do about calf pain

Method 1: Soak your feet in hot water at about 42~45°, add more high-proof brewed white wine into the water, and the water level should be higher than your ankles. ,

Method 2: Use massage to relax the calf muscles

1. Grab the muscles with one hand and use five fingers to gently massage the muscles in the palm of your hand;

2. Grasp the calf muscles with both hands with your thumbs facing each other, and massage them from top to bottom with both hands.

3. Bend your knees, make fists behind your knees, with the backs of your hands facing up, and use the sides of your little fingers to tap your calves alternately.