Leg Pain Symptoms and Descriptions
Not all leg pain derived from low back problems
presents the same way. Some typical descriptions of leg pain and accompanying
symptoms include:
Burning
pain.
Some leg pain is experienced as a
searing pain that at times radiates from the low back or buttocks down the leg,
or it may present as intermittent pain that shoots from the lower back down the
leg and occasionally into the foot. advertisement
Leg
numbness or tingling.
Anyone who has had a leg
or foot "fall asleep" and then
gradually return to normal can imagine what numbness in a leg would feel like.
Not being able to feel pressure, or hot or cold, is unnerving.
Weakness
(foot drop) or heaviness.
Here, the predominant
complaint is that leg weakness or heaviness interferes significantly with
movement.
Patients with foot drop
are unable to walk on their heels, flex their ankle, or walk with the usual
heel-toe pattern.
Constant
pain.
This type of pain is
normally felt in the buttock area, so it is not technically leg pain but it may accompany
some form of pain felt in the legs.
It may also be pain that occasionally radiates past the buttock into the leg.
Positional
leg pain.
If leg pain dramatically worsens in
intensity when sitting, standing, or walking, this can indicate a problem with
a specific part of the anatomy in the low back.
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