What are the symptoms of leg pain? Do you know these?

When people reach a certain age, they are prone to leg pain. The most common symptom is pain, which is severe and sudden. It usually happens in the morning or suddenly. The patient feels unbearable pain in the waist, which worsens with waist movement and is relieved by lying down. The tenderness point is relatively fixed and clear, and may also radiate to the thigh.

1. Specific manifestations of leg pain in the elderly:

1. The most common symptom is pain, which is severe and sudden. It usually happens in the morning or suddenly. The patient feels unbearable pain in the waist, which worsens with waist movement and is relieved by lying down. The tenderness point is relatively fixed and clear, and may also radiate to the thigh.

2. Forced posture: Severe cases are often bedridden, cannot straighten their backs when standing, their waists are bent to one side, they walk with a limp, and cannot turn over in bed. However, some postures such as lying on the side with bent knees and hips can alleviate the pain.

3. Affect some normal activities: for example, lumbar flexion, backward bending, lateral bending, forward and backward rotation, knee extension and knee flexion can cause pain.

4. Muscle spasm: The injured muscle reflex causes changes and appears to be thick strips when touched.

5. Others: Some have positive results in the “4” test, the straight leg raising test, etc.

6. X-rays, CT scans, etc. can be used to identify lumbar disc herniation, lumbar compression fractures, etc.

2. Treatment Methods

1. Maintain your weight and avoid being overweight. Medical researchers have used radioactive isotopes to study the human body structure and found that net body weight (weight minus fat) decreases with aging. But in real life, there are more fat middle-aged and elderly people than thin ones. Since excessive obesity is also one of the important causes of low back and leg pain in middle-aged and elderly people, from the perspective of disease prevention and aging, you should also restrict your diet, maintain your weight and avoid being overweight.

2. Eat more two vegetables. Two vegetables refer to vitamins and fiber. Vitamin C, vitamin D and B vitamins are indispensable nutrients for the human body, but some fat-soluble vitamins are prone to deficiency. You should eat some milk, rice bran, bran, carrots and other fresh vegetables and fruits to supplement them. Dietary studies have found that 30% of omnivorous people aged 60-90 suffer from osteoporosis, while only 18% of long-term vegetarians suffer from osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is the pathological basis of low back and leg pain. Therefore, it is very important to increase the proportion of vegetarian food in the diet.

3. Control total calories. Even if you pay full attention to the above two points, if you do not control the amount of food or often overeat, the above effects will be greatly offset. Because the human body's protein, fat and sugar can be converted into each other. If the quantity and quality of diet cannot be scientifically matched, obesity is an inevitable result.

4. Quit smoking. Active or passive smoking can not only induce cardiopulmonary diseases, but is also a triggering factor for many malignant tumors. It is also harmful to the reproductive function of men and women. Recently, more and more data have shown that smoking is one of the causes of chronic low back pain and affects the treatment effect. When smoking, many harmful substances, especially nicotine, are absorbed into the blood, causing small blood vessels to contract and spasm, becoming smaller in caliber and reducing blood supply.