About a third of the world's population complains of a feeling of raspiraniya, aching pain, fatigue in the legs, more than half of these people are women. Similar symptoms occur regardless of the lifestyle and degree of daily physical activity, age and occupation. It is very important to pay attention immediately if there is a heaviness in the legs - the causes of this phenomenon are often a sign of serious hidden diseases.
Why there is a feeling of heaviness in the legs?
First, let's look at the factors that do not pose a health hazard and, as a rule, are temporary. These include:
- Change of weather conditions. When the air temperature rises, the volume of fluid that circulates in the tissues increases. Accordingly, there is an expansion of blood vessels, their tone is reduced and blood stasis is formed.
- Overweight. A thick layer of subcutaneous fat prevents the normal contractile activity of the vessels, which worsens the excretion of fluid from the body.
- Changing the hormonal background in women. As a rule, the phenomenon provokes the second phase of the cycle, pregnancy, oral contraceptives.
- Unbalanced dynamics. A sedentary lifestyle or prolonged static loads (constant standing).
The listed problems can easily be solved without resorting to serious medical interventions, but there are other causes of the symptom in question.
Heaviness in legs while walking
The main factor provoking this phenomenon is chronic arterial insufficiency of the lower extremities. It is characterized by a narrowing of the lumen of the vessels, up to a complete blockage.
To diseases accompanied by arterial insufficiency, carry:
- diabetic arteritis due to diabetic microangiopathy;
- obliterating atherosclerosis;
- nonspecific aortoarteriitis;
- scleroderma ;
- thrombophlebitis;
- obliterant thromboangiitis;
- rheumatoid arthritis;
- nodular periarteritis;
- systemic lupus erythematosus.
Progression of diseases leads to noticeable lameness, high fatigue, paresthesia.
Causes of Gravity in Leg Caviar
If you are concerned not only with the feet, but also the lower leg, most likely the following pathologies occur:
- Varicose disease. In the early stages it is manifested by the heaviness in the legs that occurs in the evening. Progression of the disease is characterized by the transition of symptoms to the gastrocnemius area, the addition of cosmetic defects and painful sensations, swelling.
- Diseases of the heart. Most of the complaints are for symptoms such as tachycardia and bradycardia, numbness, dyspnea. Heaviness is felt in the area of the ankles and lower legs, usually painless.
- Pathology of the kidneys (pyelonephritis, glomerulonephritis, renal failure, glomerulosclerosis of the diabetic type). The described symptomatology arises from the puffiness and retention of biological fluids in soft tissues.
Pain and heaviness in the legs
If the problem is accompanied by a pain syndrome, the reasons can be:
- Lymphedema or lymphostasis. Characterized by significant
accumulation of lymphatic fluid in the intercellular space. In addition to puffiness and heaviness in the legs, pain, trophic changes in soft tissues are observed. - Flat feet, osteochondrosis, arthrosis, arthritis. Inflammatory diseases of the joints and the spinal column are accompanied by palpable swelling, pain syndrome, numbness of the limbs, a feeling of heaviness and fatigue, especially after physical exertion. Pain can irradiate into the lower back, the sacral and cervical spine. Also, foot deformity , as a rule, is valgus.