Trauma is the most obvious cause of leg pain. Falls, near falls, and twisting injuries can damage bones, muscles, and joints or a combination of all three. The traumatic leg pains include injuries caused by fractures, sprains and bleeding. In fractures, bones get cracked and the pain originates from the nerve endings present in them.
Lumbar spine (low back) disorders can cause sciatica pain. Sciatica is often described as mild to intense pain in the left or right leg. Sciatica is caused by compression of one or more of the five sets of nerve roots in the lower back. Other things that may make your sciatica pain worse include being overweight, not exercising regularly, wearing high heels, or sleeping on a mattress that is too soft.
Neuropathic pain often seems to have no obvious cause; some common causes of neuropathic pain include:
Alcoholism, Amputation, Back, leg, and hip problems, Chemotherapy, Diabetes, Neuropathic pain results from damage to or dysfunction of the peripheral or central nervous system.
Foot pain may be caused by many different things. Trauma, disease, or a combination of both are the most common causes of foot pain. High-impact exercising, such as jogging or strenuous aerobics, can injure the feet and other parts of the leg.
Leg pain can be caused by various ailments and conditions including forms of arthritis, dehydration, muscle cramps and poor circulation, vitamin deficiencies, restless leg syndrome (RLS), and diseases.
Foot pain may be caused by many different things. Trauma, disease, or a combination of both are the most common causes of foot pain. High-impact exercising, such as jogging or strenuous aerobics, can injure the feet and other parts of the leg.
The most common symptom of true sciatica is posterior thigh, lower leg or foot pain that can be much worse than the accompanying lower back pain. Usually a patient will experience moderate to severe pain, which begins in the buttocks and runs down through the leg or foot.
It is important to know that true sciatica will produce pain that radiates beyond the knee. As stated above, sciatica can cause both sensory and muscular abnormalities in the legs and thighs. Common symptoms of sciatica include, A cramping sensation of the thigh, Shooting pains from the buttock, down the leg, Tingling, or pins-and-needles sensations in the legs and thighs, A burning sensation in the thigh.
Sciatica is the inflammation of the sciatic nerve, usually begins in the hip and buttocks and continues all the way down the leg. This condition is often
accompanied by low back pain, which can be more or less severe than the leg pain.
Several nerve roots leave the spinal cord and exit through holes in the sacrum to combine and form the sciatic nerve, which then passes between layers of the buttock muscles into the deep muscles of the back of the thigh.
