1, overworked
Patients who are overworked and lack of rest can cause a lot of lactic acid in their legs. When lactic acid accumulates on their legs, it will cause leg pain.
2. Rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease with erosive arthritis as the main symptom, which can lead to inflammatory reaction of cartilage, synovium, ligament and tendon, and then cause leg pain.
3. Lumbar disc herniation
Lumbar disc herniation is mainly caused by degeneration of lumbar disc, rupture of fibrous ring or total rupture. When the protruding nucleus pulposus compresses or stimulates nerve roots, it can cause leg pain of patients.
The treatment of leg pain in the elderly includes general treatment, drug treatment and surgical treatment, as follows:
1, general treatment
Patients should keep adequate rest and avoid overwork and strenuous exercise. At the same time, you can massage or hot compress your legs to relieve pain symptoms.
2. Drug therapy
For leg pain caused by overwork, rheumatoid arthritis and lumbar disc herniation, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as diclofenac sodium and celecoxib can be taken. But the leg pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis needs to be treated with anti-rheumatic drugs, such as methotrexate and leflunomide.
3. Surgical therapy
For patients with lumbar disc herniation, if the drug treatment effect is not good, which seriously affects daily life, nerve compression can be relieved by surgery, including lumbar disc extraction, vertebral body fusion, minimally invasive surgery through intervertebral foramen mirror and so on. Old people have leg pain, and most of them will have several situations:
1, lumbar spinal stenosis often leads to pain and weakness in both lower limbs, especially after walking for a certain distance, which can be far or near, and most of them do not exceed 100 meters. Considering that this is the cause of leg pain caused by lumbar spinal stenosis.
2. Knee joint and osteoarthritis in the elderly. In general, this situation is mostly caused by pain around the unilateral limb and knee. After that, there may be pain around the knees and joints, which is more obvious when going upstairs and downstairs, so this is to distinguish the source of leg pain in the elderly.
In the treatment, if the pain is caused by lumbar spinal stenosis, we can take some drugs that nourish the nerves, such as mecobalamin, and we can also take anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs, such as celebrex. In general, lumbar spinal stenosis in the elderly is mostly due to hyperosteogeny, osteophyte formation, reduced lumbar mobility and relative stiffness, so most patients who fail to receive conservative treatment will eventually undergo surgery. Then the pain of knee joint can also be relieved by mecobalamin or celebrex or Le Song. If you have synovitis, joint hyperosteogeny and leg pain, you can consider intra-articular injection, but in order to finally solve the pain caused by knee osteoarthritis, you should still consider joint replacement.