Female thigh muscle pain

Thigh pain can occur in several locations, including the outside, back, inside, and both sides of the thigh. Today I want to talk about the pain in the inner thigh, and I want to analyze whether it is pain caused by muscles or nerves. What are the causes of inner thigh muscle pain?

What causes inner thigh muscle pain?

Tensor fasciae latae muscle atrophy:

The muscle injury pain is mainly concentrated on the front sides of the greater trochanter of the femur, which will involve hip pain and extend to the front sides of the thigh root, and rarely extend down along the thigh root to the sides of the kneecap. It is more common in people who often walk on steep slopes, sleep curled up, or sit for long periods of time with their hips flexed. The main symptoms are difficulty in maintaining a seat with the hip flexed more than 90 degrees for a long time, pain after sitting for a long time with the knees bent, inability to lie on the painful side, and inability to walk quickly due to the pain.

Frequent bowing and sitting work, the hip joint is in a flexed position, which can cause the tensor fasciae latae to rotate and cause aseptic inflammation. When one side of our waist, buttocks, knees, calves or ankles is painful due to diseases and we cannot walk with weight, the other leg will have to bear all the weight. Such long-term single-leg weight-bearing will cause muscle strain space-occupying lesions in the tensor fasciae latae on the healthy side. When the thigh root is extended steeply and the knee is straight, it often causes acute injury to the tensor fasciae latae, and the tensor fasciae latae will cause defensive muscle atrophy.

When the tensor fasciae latae muscle atrophy occurs, moderate to small amounts of activity can usually be maintained, but the symptoms worsen at the beginning and end, especially when rotating the body, extending the hip, and quickly changing the position of the movement. When the condition is relatively severe and lasts for a long time, discomfort will appear in the anterior hip joint, and the pain often radiates along the inner thigh to the knee joint. When the TFL is tensor fasciae latae, patients may have difficulty leaning against a wall and hyperextending the hip in order to maintain slight flexion at the hip while standing. There is no pain when the hip is flexed and moved. The pain subsided when walking with the support column.

Bilateral femoral cutaneous neuritis:

The pain caused by femoral cutaneous nerve injury is a syndrome of abnormal sensation and pain in the skin on the front sides of the thigh caused by damage to the femoral cutaneous nerve due to various reasons. It is more common in middle-aged and elderly patients.

The femoral cutaneous nerves on both sides are tactile nerves, which originate from the posterior roots of the L2 and L3 spinal nerves. After extending from the edge of the psoas major muscle, the nerve passes deep to the iliacus muscle to the anterior superior iliac spine, and on its inner side, it passes under the inguinal ligament to reach the thigh. Then it slides down along both sides of the sartorius muscle, and comes from the broad muscle fascia at the root of the thigh 5-10 cm away from the anterior superior iliac spine, and divides into anterior, posterior, left and right branches to the skin on both sides of the anterior thigh. The causes of this disease are complicated, and patients with low back and leg pain are often prone to this disease because the nerve is compressed by the stretching, tightening, and muscle spasm of the soft tissues in this area when it passes through the inguinal ligament or the broad muscle fascia at the root of the thigh. The compressed factors may be the root cause of the disease.