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What Could Cause Leg Pain?
The only way I know how to describe the pain I am having sounds silly but it feels like someone has a voodoo doll and is stabbing me on no regular basis in my upper outer thigh right leg and above my ankle in my left leg. I am 76 years old and take thyroid medicine and blood pressure medicine.
Mon, 18 Apr 2016
hi,
thank you for providing the brief history of you.
A thorough neuromuscular assessment is advised.
As you mentioned your symptoms and age , two things come in mind. either the pain can be due to any vascular insufficiency or either it can be a neuropathic pain.
For this, a thorough neuromuscular assessment is advised. Also, you may have to take a diagnostic test like Doppler scan of the lower limbs for vascular insufficiency or an MRI of the lumbar spine for the neuropathic symptoms.
As the treatment will be totally based in the Diagnosis post the Neuromuscular assessment and diagnostic tests.
For vascular insufficiency, the treatment plan will be conventional - rest, medication and physical therapy, home care advice, do's and dont's etc
For the neuropathic pain, - medication and physical therapy like - Therapeutic ultrasound therapy, TENS therapy & exercises like - core stability, pelvic floor Strengthening, spinal muscle Strengthening, lower limb strengthening will be advised.
But prior to any treatment plan, the Neuromuscular assessment is a must. also, as per your age there will be a degenerative changes in the lumbar spine which may lead to this kind of pain and post assessment can be helped by planned therapy.
As in my clinical practice on a geriatrics , the rest, medication and physical therapy has given us 88% success rate to help them get rid of symptoms and a better life. I wish the same from you.
Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
thank you for providing the brief history of you.
A thorough neuromuscular assessment is advised.
As you mentioned your symptoms and age , two things come in mind. either the pain can be due to any vascular insufficiency or either it can be a neuropathic pain.
For this, a thorough neuromuscular assessment is advised. Also, you may have to take a diagnostic test like Doppler scan of the lower limbs for vascular insufficiency or an MRI of the lumbar spine for the neuropathic symptoms.
As the treatment will be totally based in the Diagnosis post the Neuromuscular assessment and diagnostic tests.
For vascular insufficiency, the treatment plan will be conventional - rest, medication and physical therapy, home care advice, do's and dont's etc
For the neuropathic pain, - medication and physical therapy like - Therapeutic ultrasound therapy, TENS therapy & exercises like - core stability, pelvic floor Strengthening, spinal muscle Strengthening, lower limb strengthening will be advised.
But prior to any treatment plan, the Neuromuscular assessment is a must. also, as per your age there will be a degenerative changes in the lumbar spine which may lead to this kind of pain and post assessment can be helped by planned therapy.
As in my clinical practice on a geriatrics , the rest, medication and physical therapy has given us 88% success rate to help them get rid of symptoms and a better life. I wish the same from you.
Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
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