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LEG PAIN
Intermittent claudication.
Leg pain is a common affliction in the chiropractic clinic. There are a host of causes. One of them is Intermittent Claudication. This nasty condition relates to a muscle starved of oxygen, usually in the calf or thigh. In this sense it is closely related to its first cousin, angina pectoris, which is a heart muscle starved of oxygen. Chest pain when you exercise.
Chest pain.
Typically you will find that whilst walking you develop calf pain, and while cycling in the thigh, which almost immediately ceases when you stop the activity. During exercise the muscle demands more oxygen. If none is available, then it starts complaining. When you stop exercising, the muscle no longer needs the extra oxygen and the pain stops.
Patients typically describe the pain as an ache, cramp, numbness or a sense of fatigue. As in much of medicine the word is derived from Latin: claudicare "to limp." Your chiropractor will look for decreased pulses in the ankle and foot, and for other signs like loss of hair and shiny skin in the lower leg. The cause? You guessed it, usually smoking, particularly if it is accompanied by a poor diet, high in unhealthy fats. This fatal combination causes a blockage in the artery that runs to the leg.
Slipped Disc Symptoms
Trying to diagnose your own condition can be dangerous, but sometimes it helps to know what may be happening, how seriously you should be taking your back and leg pain. Is the pain in your leg coming from your smoking, or from a slipped disc? At Slipped disc symptoms Case File you'll find some of the more common presentations of what in Chiropractic lingo we call a Disk protrusion or prolapse.
SLIPPED DISC SYMPTOMS ...
SLIPPED DISC SYMPTOMS Case File ...
Treatment of INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION
- Since smoking reduces the blood oxygen by about 20%, stopping smoking immediately makes significantly more oxygen available. As a result the pain only begins after a much longer distance.
- A careful assessment of your blood fats is immediately important. A radical change of diet is usually, but not always called for.
Some facts about healthy fats (CHOLESTEROL ALCOHOL)
- An assessment of diabetes and high blood pressure, which may contribute and must be appropriately treated.
- Regular exercise (within the limit of the pain) develops alternative blood paths.
- If all the above fail, a vascular surgeon will either stretch the offending artery with a balloon, fit a stent or perform a bypass to reduce the pain during exercise.
Male smokers over 50 are the most common victims. Its because of conditions like this that smokers typically lose the last ten years of their lives. Just about the time they retire! Hint, hint! For some reason, with women it's even worse. Smoking women hearts stop fifteen years sooner. Enjoy this short story from chiropractor Bernard Preston about a blocked artery in the groin causing pain in the leg.
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The Ilio-tibial band
The ITB is a broad band of muscle / tendon / fascia that stretches from the hip down to the knee, causing pain in all age groups from the hip and groin, down to the outer side of the knee and even into the side of the lower leg. For more information about the ITB syndrome, and how it can cause leg pain,
click here. ILIOTIBIAL BAND STRETCH >>>
Pinched nerve in the groin
Meralgia Paresthetica is a condition where a sensory nerve to the side (and sometimes the front) of the thigh is pinched in the groin causing leg pain. Traditionally it is believed that it can only be corrected surgically, however this is not the case. It's a condition that Chiropractic treat every day, but the treatment in the groin is horribly painful. Better than surgery though.
Read more about MERALGIA PARESTHETICA
Sciatica
Sciatica causes a particularly mean leg pain, a condition that chiropractors face on a daily basis. It can cause tingling legs, pain and weakness. It may be caused by many different conditions. Here are a few of the more common causes of pain and tingling in feet and legs.
- Slipped Disk.
- Lumbar Facet Syndrome.
- Piriformis Syndrome.
- Spondylolysthesis, or forward slippage of a vertebra.
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IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS
Immobilisation Arthritis, caused by joint fixation.
Thigh pain during pregnancy.
Hip arthritis.
Lower back and leg pain.
Upper leg pain.
Honey bread, not that difficult to bake.
Lonely road of faith (by Chiropractor Bernard Preston)
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