Why do women have leg pain?

Once women find themselves experiencing leg pain, they should stop doing strenuous exercise, stand or walk all the time, and pay more attention to bed rest to reduce the burden on their legs. They can also receive some massage treatments during the pain. This treatment method can appropriately relieve their related symptoms and prevent complications such as calf cramps when in pain.

1. Treatment of the primary disease

Leg cramps caused by arteriosclerosis should be treated actively for the underlying disease. Arteriosclerosis is a systemic disease, and the symptoms often vary depending on the location of the lesion. It is known that arteriosclerosis begins in childhood and develops slowly and gradually. Therefore, in order to avoid "calf cramps", it is necessary to pay attention and implement various measures to prevent and treat arteriosclerosis as early as possible.

2. General treatment

Eliminate the cause of the disease. For example, to keep your calves warm, warm up thoroughly before exercise, regularly choose foods high in calcium, such as milk, soy milk, bone soup, fish, dried shrimps, millet porridge, etc., use medicines that can supplement calcium and reduce osteoporosis, insist on moderate exercise, and avoid the leg muscles being in a "resting" state for a long time. Exercise increases blood flow to the leg muscles and removes muscle metabolic waste in a timely manner. The diet should be light. Avoid high-sugar and high-fat foods. Reduce cholesterol intake. Smokers should quit smoking. The nicotine poison in tobacco leaves can cause persistent spasmodic contraction of small blood vessels at the end of the limbs, resulting in insufficient blood supply to muscle and nerve tissue. Arteriosclerosis causes the lumen to narrow, and insufficient blood supply to the calf is the main cause of calf cramps.

3. Manual therapy

When cramps occur, bend your toes in the direction opposite to the force and persist for more than 1 to 2 minutes, and the effect will be achieved. Specifically, if the muscles in the back of the calf are cramping, you can bend your feet so that the soles of your feet are lifted up, and at the same time try to straighten your knee joints; when the muscles in the front of the calf are cramping, you can press down on the soles of your feet and bend your toes forcefully.

Leg cramps are extremely painful when they occur, especially in the middle of the night when leg muscle cramps often wake you up in pain, affecting your sleep; they can also occur during the day, affecting your walking and life. Calf muscle cramps caused by arteriosclerosis often occur in some elderly people. Sometimes it happens when walking and is relieved by resting for a while; sometimes it occurs when resting and is relieved by some movement. At the same time as these symptoms occur, some patients may also experience discomfort such as coldness, numbness and weakness in the lower limbs.

The most common causes of leg cramps are:

1. Cold stimulation from the external environment, such as low room temperature at night in winter, using a quilt that is too thin or exposing legs outside the quilt during sleep.

2. Fatigue, lack of sleep, rest or excessive rest can lead to the accumulation of local acidic metabolic products and cause muscle spasms. Walking or exercising for too long, which causes excessive fatigue in the lower limbs, or lack of rest and sleep, can cause lactic acid accumulation; sleeping and resting too much or too long can slow down blood circulation, etc.

3. Elderly women have a decrease in estrogen and osteoporosis, which leads to low blood calcium levels, increased muscle irritability, and frequent cramps.

4. Leg cramps caused by coronary heart disease.