The pain caused by a leg cramp will come on suddenly in the calf, foot, or thigh. It is intense and the pain feels dull and tight. The term "shin splints" refers to pain in the front of the lower ...

The pain started in waves in my lower back and travelled down my left thigh as I worked bent over my laptop on my couch—the ...

It’s called piriformis syndrome, and the 66-year-old said on The Drew Barrymore Show on January 23 that the pain the ...

One day, I noticed a pain in the back of my right leg that only subsided when I elevated my leg. I decided to prop my leg up in another office chair and continue working. About 2 days after the ...

It took four years for doctors to identify her condition; at the time, her primary symptom was a tightness in her calf that caused a limp in one leg. Nearly three years ... My medical advice is quite ...

A local vascular surgeon has highlighted a simple injection that could alleviate leg pain for those experiencing heaviness or ...

People with osteoarthritis may also have muscle spasms and leg pain. Leg cramps are usually linked to osteoarthritis of the spine. This condition can lead to pinched nerves or other nerve damage ...

Leg pain can be either injury related or overuse related. Leg injury in soccer players usually involves contusion from a direct blow or a muscle strain from a stretch type injury. Treatment is ...

This paper discusses the common causes of exercise induced lower leg pain, including chronic compartment syndrome (CCS), medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS) and chronic calf tears (CCT). The ...

People with radicular leg pain have a type of neuropathic pain stemming from pressure on a lumbar spinal nerve root. The most common cause is LDH, which can lead to direct compression of the ...

placebo controlled trial to establish the effect on straight leg raise, hip internal rotation, and muscle pain of dry needling treatment to the gluteal muscles in athletes with posterior thigh pain ...