What causes sore, swollen and weak legs?

The health of the legs is extremely important for people's lives. The feet are the basis for people to walk. If the feet lose power, the body will be like waste. Therefore, paying attention to the feet is an important matter in people's lives. The health of the feet is easily affected by various factors. Among them, soreness and weakness in the legs is a symptom that affects the health of the feet. Let's take a look at what causes soreness and weakness in the legs?

Leg soreness and weakness may be caused by excessive exercise or fatigue, but if the leg soreness and weakness lasts for a long time, we need to pay attention to it, because it may be a sign of illness.

anemia

The presence or severity of anemia symptoms depends on the degree of anemia, the speed at which anemia occurs, whether there is a change in circulating blood volume, the patient's age, and the compensatory capacity of the cardiovascular system. Anemia occurs slowly and the body can gradually adapt. Even if the anemia is severe, physiological functions can still be maintained. On the contrary, if anemia occurs in a short period of time, even if the degree of anemia is not severe, obvious symptoms may appear. The symptoms are more obvious in the elderly and weak or those with decreased cardiopulmonary function.

Kidney deficiency

Kidney deficiency refers to the deficiency of kidney essence, qi, yin and yang. Symptoms of kidney deficiency: The symptoms of kidney yang deficiency are low back pain, cold limbs, fear of cold, and even edema, which are symptoms of "cold". Poor sexual function can also lead to kidney yang deficiency; the symptoms of kidney yin deficiency are "heat", mainly low back pain, dryness, night sweats, spontaneous sweats, dizziness, tinnitus, etc. Modern science has proven that when a person suffers from kidney deficiency, whether it is kidney yin deficiency or kidney yang deficiency, it will lead to a decrease in the person's immune ability, the kidney's microcirculation system will also be blocked, and the kidney network will become blocked.

Being sedentary or lacking exercise

Sitting for a long time can slow down the blood circulation in the lower limbs and cause insufficient blood supply; lack of exercise can also cause the muscles and ligaments to become loose and weak, leading to sore and weak legs.

Endocrine diseases

Endocrine gland diseases can be divided into three groups according to the functions of the endocrine glands.

① Hyperfunction. It is often accompanied by clinical symptoms caused by excessive hormone secretion from glandular hyperplasia and adenoma (cancer), such as primary aldosteronism and hyperparathyroidism.

② Functional decline. Due to the destruction of endocrine glands by various reasons (such as congenital developmental abnormalities, genetics, inflammation, fibrosis or autoimmunity, drugs, surgery and radiation, etc.), it causes insufficient hormone synthesis and secretion, such as anterior pituitary dysfunction and chronic adrenal cortex insufficiency.