What is the cause of calf pain?

Some female friends will experience calf pain in their lives. Many times they don’t understand why and feel that there is nothing wrong with their calves, but they just experience calf pain for no apparent reason. There are many reasons for calf pain, such as varicose veins in the legs, hypothyroidism, cold, calf calcium deficiency, etc. The specific reasons still need to be analyzed.

Causes of calf pain

There are many causes of calf pain, including poor blood circulation in the legs, varicose veins in the legs, and changes in ambient temperature, which can all cause calf pain.

Hypothyroidism, uremia, or other medical illnesses. Motor neurone disease, radiculopathy, or peripheral neuropathy. Some blood pressure and lipid-lowering drugs can also cause symptoms.

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 causes leg pain?

There are many causes of calf pain. Different relief methods are recommended according to different causes.

If the calf pain is caused by calcium deficiency, the easiest way at this time is to supplement calcium. You can drink more calcium-supplementing soup or take calcium tablets. If the calcium deficiency is severe, you must supplement calcium under the guidance of a doctor.

Muscle cramps and soreness caused by cold. Some people, in order to keep cool, soak in cold water for a long time, or sleep in a low-temperature air-conditioned room, or let a fan blow on their legs for a long time, which can cause cold air to enter the body. A quick way to relieve the pain is to soak in hot water or apply hot compress.

Soreness caused by excessive fatigue. For example, walking for too long or exceeding the usual amount of activity, wearing uncomfortable shoes for walking or exercise, especially for female friends, wearing high heels for a long time can easily cause calf pain. You can soak your feet in hot water with sea salt or peppermint tea with mint leaves. Eliminate fatigue, relieve pain, and have quick results.

Leg swelling and pain caused by volatile gas poisoning. This situation often occurs in newly renovated rooms or newly purchased furniture. The first thing to do is to isolate the toxic substances, leave the room vacant and ventilated, and use tea, green plants, activated carbon and other substances that can absorb and neutralize toxic gases. The patient sought medical treatment promptly, drank plenty of water, and consumed detoxifying foods such as milk and mung beans depending on the different poisoning substances and the severity of the poisoning.

No matter what the cause of calf soreness is, it can be relieved through preliminary massage. Do not use palm massage directly without any auxiliary tools.

1. Causes of calf pain

1. The culprit is "lack of exercise"

Friends who drive may have this experience: after a few years of driving, their calves become extremely sore and tired, and they even often cramp. What's worse, there is a rattling sound when the ankle turns, and the knee joints may even be painful and popping, or there may even be fluid accumulation in the knee joints, etc.

Have you ever had this experience? The reason is very simple. This is because you walk less, exercise less, have less calf muscle activity, have slow blood circulation, and metabolic waste is not excreted from the body in time, so you feel severe soreness, tiredness, and fatigue.

Over time, the calf muscles are less stressed and their strength weakens, so the restraining effect on the ankle joint is weakened, the ankle joint becomes unstable, and abnormal popping sounds occur. Over time, these problems will gradually develop upward and affect the knee joints, causing a series of problems of the same nature.

The calf muscles are naturally strong because they have to bear the weight of the body, so the stimulation of body weight is beneficial and necessary. Under such stimulation, the calf muscles can metabolize normally and work normally.

Well, as our lives become more and more better, we have fewer and fewer opportunities to walk or even exercise, the gravity stimulation on the calf becomes less and less, the metabolic environment becomes worse and worse, and its working condition becomes worse and worse. As a result, a series of symptoms appeared. The calves do not get the proper exercise, and the Qi and blood are not fully circulated, which is the root cause of calf soreness and swelling.

This reason seems simple, but it subtly affects our health and quality of life.

2. Be alert to "liver and kidney deficiency"

While you are experiencing soreness in your calves, do you also feel pain in your heels? Is there a slight ringing in your ears when it is late at night and everyone is asleep? If you experience these symptoms, you should be alert, as this is a manifestation of liver and kidney deficiency, not just a problem of lack of exercise.

"Heel pain" and even "tinnitus and deafness" are gradually becoming younger, and patients in their twenties and thirties are not uncommon. Seeking professional help is the only option.

2. Exercise therapy

To cure a disease, we need to find its cause. Since we know that the cause of "calf soreness" is too little exercise, then increasing exercise will improve this symptom. There is no particular restriction on the form of exercise, as long as you move, it will be helpful.

So after a busy day at work, is there any simple and easy way to complete it at home and achieve the effect of exercise? Here we introduce a few movements, as long as you can complete them seriously, there will definitely be results.

Action 1: Bend over and touch your feet

Stand at attention, bend your waist downward, keep your legs straight, and touch the backs of your feet with your hands. Repeat 30 times. This movement is designed to stretch the muscles in the back of the lower body, including the back of the thigh and calf. As the muscles are stretched, they regain their elasticity and flexibility.

It also serves as a warm-up. At the beginning, you will feel a strong pulling sensation in your muscles and your flexibility is very poor, but you have to persist. After a few times, the muscles will be stretched and the pulling sensation will be relieved. When you bend over and touch your feet, the movements should be slow but deep, and you should hold the end of the movement for 5-10 seconds, which will achieve better results.

Action 2: Standing Calf Raise

Stand upright, put your hands on your waist, and lift your heels. You are required to lift it up as high as possible, and do it slowly. When you lift it to the limit, stay there for 5 seconds. Repeat 30 times. The main function of the calf muscles is to lift the heels, so the heel lift movement directly exercises the muscles at the back of the calf. Do it to the best of your ability and the more you do the better.

Action 3: Jump from the spot

The strength of the upright heel raise is relatively weak. If you have a good physical foundation, you can do the "jumping in place" movement. First, half squat, then jump up as high as possible, and pull upward with force, press down on the toes, make the instep and calf as straight as possible, then fall down, and complete the movement in one go.

Repeat this 30 times. "Jumping on the spot" also exercises the muscles in the back of the calf, while stretching the muscles throughout the body, which has the effect of improving overall condition.

Repeat the above three movements 3 sets each day. Proceed step by step and adjust the intensity according to your physical condition.

Persistence is important. It will never work if you fish for three days and rest for two days.

3. Self-massage

What causes leg pain?

The method of self-massage is very good, the effect is obvious, and the operation is simple, but it must be taken seriously. You need to set aside a fixed ten minutes every day, remain calm, and follow the steps. Only then will the operation be effective.

Method 1: Tap the back of the calf

Stand up, bend your knees and hips, make fists with both hands, and tap the back of the calf, from the heel to the bottom of the popliteal fossa, with slight force. Apply more force to the muscular areas until a sore and swollen feeling appears. Repeat the tapping for 3 minutes, take a short break and then repeat the operation again. Repeat this 3 times each day. You can do some self-massage after exercise to complement each other.

Method 2: Tap Zusanli acupoint

We are already familiar with the Zusanli point, and tapping it can improve the condition of the calves. The operation is the same as above. The effect will be better if you feel the sensation spreading towards your ankle when tapping.

The above is the relevant self-care knowledge for "sore calf muscles", which are all effective and can be used as a reference for everyone.

The soreness and swelling in the calves has sounded the alarm for us. Sub-health is approaching us step by step. Today it is "soreness and swelling in the calves", and we don't know what it will be tomorrow. It's like a spreading tumor, and before we know it, we have no power to fight back.

Changing our concepts about health, changing our concepts about life, reshaping our living habits, and preventing problems before they occur are the best ways to change our health status and are what we really need to do.

The above is what the editor explained to you about what causes leg pain. I believe that everyone will have a certain understanding after reading it. Lack of common sense in life is a very difficult thing. In order to help more netizens, we have compiled a lot of life knowledge.