Leg Pain Causes

There are many causes of leg pain. However, only some of these are medically serious. Minor leg pain or discomfort will often disappear within a short time and can be eased or relieved with at-home treatments while severe leg pain needs medical treatment. Leg pain is an umbrella term whose causes related to your bone, muscles and nerves could be:

• Muscle fatigue and dehydration leading to leg cramps
• Strenuous exercise or physical activity
• Traumatic or non-traumatic Injuries
• Sports injuries
• Muscle strains / muscle tear
• Inflammations like bursitis tendinitis, arthritis
• Stress fractures
• Shin splints (overuse injury to the tibia or shinbone)
• Slipped / herniated discs
• Sciatica
• Torn meniscus
• Ligamentous sprains
• Spinal Stenosis
• Osgood Schlatter’s disease (of the growth plate of the tibia in young boys)
• Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Flat foot

Apart from these, certain systemic pathologies can lead to leg pain that includes:

• Atherosclerosis
• Deep Venous Thrombosis
• Gout
• Hypertension
• Varicose veins
• Spider veins
• Diabetes
• Renal/ Kidney issues
• Benign tumors
• malignant tumors or cancers
• Compartment Syndrome
• Intermittent Claudication
• Infection
• Paget’s Diseases
• Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)
• Blood Clots
• Cerebrovascular Accident ( CVA/Stroke)
• Chronic alcoholism
• Skin infection
• Anemia
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Guillain-Barré syndrome
• Pregnancy
• Certain medications like anti-coagulants, corticosteroids etc.