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Causes of Leg pain
This section discusses 202 medical conditions causing Leg pain. A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.
Causes of Leg pain:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Leg pain.
There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor
about your symptoms.
- Locations of leg pain:
- Muscle strain
- Ligament strain
- Over-exertion or injury
- Previous knee injury
- Previous hip injury
- Shin splints - see also causes of shin splints
- Stress fractures (type of Fractures)
- Compartment syndromes
- Patellofemoral problems
- Degenerative joint disease
- Intermittent claudication
- Venous claudication
- Night cramps
- Blocked artery
- Varicose veins
- Phlebitis
- Thrombophlebitis
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Gout
- Leg trauma
- Referred leg pain - getting leg pain when the real cause of the pain is elsewhere.
- Sciatica
- Hip pain
- Spinal disc condition
- Spinal condition
- Spinal canal infection
- Some causes of leg pain or knee pain during pregnancy:
- Venous insufficiency
- Postphlebitic syndrome
- Thrombophlebitis
- Muscle cramps
- Leg trauma
- Some causes of anterior knee pain include:
- Patellar tendinitis
- Patellofemoral malalignment
- Chondromalacia patellae
- Synovial impingement
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Some causes of leg pain when walking and sometimes also leg pain at rest include:
- Some causes of calf pain include:
- Calf muscle stiffness - usually from exercise or exertion
- Calf muscle injury
- Venous insufficiency
- Arterial insufficiency
- Thrombophlebitis
- Plantaris tendon rupture
- Gastrocneimius medial head rupture
- Pseudothrombophlebitis syndrome
- Popliteal cyst - also Baker's cyst
- Varicose veins - often causes aching calves.
- Cellulitis
- See also causes of calf pain or calf swelling
- Arterial embolism (see Artery symptoms)
- Bone tumor
- Metastatic bone tumor
- Cellulitis
- Obturator hernia
- Trochanteric bursitis
- Bone disorders - disorders of the leg bones can cause leg pain
- Arthritis
- Gout
- Low potassium level
- Osteomyelitis
- Some causes of burning or tingling leg or foot pains include:
- Paresthesias
- Leg paresthesias - see also foot paresthesias
- Nerve entrapment
- Meralgia paresthetica - usually thigh pain
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- Ischemia
- Spinal claudication
- Neurofibroma of the sciatic nerve
- Spinal tumor
- Irritation of the meninges by hemorrhage
- Spinal infection
- Spinal injection
- Hydatid cyst in the spine
- Postherpetic neuralgia
- Prolapsed intervertebral disc
- Spinal abscess
- Vertebral tumor
- Fracture-dislocation
- Spondylolisthesis
- Labour
- Penetrating injury of the sciatic nerve
- Leriche syndrome
- Iliac stenosis
- Femoral stenosis
- Popliteal stenosis
- Anaemia
- Bone neoplasm
- Compartment syndrome
- Fracture
- Infection
- Occlusive vascular disease
- Strain or sprain
- Venous stasis ulcers
- Claudication
- Growing pains - such as leg pain occurring at night in a child.
- Restless legs syndrome
- Paget's disease
- Buerger's disease
- Baker's cyst
- Fascitis
- Patello-femoral pain syndrome
- Polyneuritis
- Osteomalacia
- Rickets
- Scurvy
- Beriberi
- Perthe's disease
- Esinophilia-myalgia syndrome
- Impingement syndromes
- Polycythemia vera
- Restless leg syndrome
- Leg cramp
- Broken bone
Causes of Leg pain listed in Disease Database:
Other medical conditions listed in the Disease Database as possible
causes of Leg pain as a symptom include:
- Achilles tendinitis
- Baker's cyst of knee (and rupture)
- Blount's disease
- Bromocriptine
- Cabergoline
- Cramp
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Functional disorders
- Intervertebral disc herniation
- Limb ischaemia
- Lysuride
- May-Thurner syndrome
- Meralgia paraesthetica
- Osgood-Schlatter's disease
- Pergolide
- Piribedil
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Propranolol
- Ropinirole
- Varicose veins
Conditions listing medical symptoms: Leg pain:
The following list of conditions have 'Leg pain' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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More Information About Leg pain
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List of 202 causes of Leg pain
This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Leg pain in our database from various sources.
- Achilles tendinitis
- Acute intermittent porphyria - leg pain
- Addison's Disease - leg pain
- Addisonian crisis - leg pain
- Adult hypophosphatasia - thigh pain
- Allergic tension-fatigue syndrome - leg pain
- Anaemia
- Ankle pain
- Antithrombin Deficiency - thigh pain
- Antithrombin Deficiency, type I - thigh pain
- Antithrombin Deficiency, type II - thigh pain
- Arachnidism - leg cramps
- Arachnoiditis - leg pain
- Arterial embolism
- Arterial insufficiency
- Arthritis
- Atherosclerosis - leg pain
- Axial osteosclerosis - thigh pain
- Baker's cyst
- Baker's cyst of knee (and rupture)
- Bejel - leg bone pain
- Beriberi
- Blocked artery
- Blount's disease
- Bone disorders - disorders of the leg bones can cause leg pain
- Bone neoplasm
- Bone tumor
- Broken bone
- Broken leg - leg pain
- Bromocriptine
- Buerger's disease - intermittent leg pains
- Cabergoline
- Calf muscle injury
- Calf muscle stiffness - usually from exercise or exertion
- Calf pain
- Camurat-Engelmann disease, type 2 - leg pain
- Camurati-Engelmann Disease - leg pain
- Cardiomyopathy - hearing loss, type t RNA lysine gene mutation - leg pain
- Cellulitis
- Chondromalacia patellae
- Chordoma - leg pain
- Claudication
- Claudication pain - leg pain
- Compartment syndrome
- Compartment syndromes
- Cramp
- Deep vein thrombosis - leg pain
- Degenerative joint disease
- Diabetic peripheral neuropathy - pain in legs
- Disc Disorders - Leg pain
- Dobriner syndrome - leg pain
- Dressler (D.)syndrome - leg pain
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type 3 - chronic limb pain
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type III - chronic limb pain
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, hypermobile type - chronic limb pain
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, hypermobility type - chronic limb pain
- Endometriosis - leg pain
- Eosinophilic fasciitis - leg pain
- Esinophilia-myalgia syndrome
- Ewing's sarcoma - leg pain
- Fascitis
- Femoral stenosis
- Foot pain
- Fracture
- Fracture-dislocation
- Fractured femur - Thigh pain
- Functional disorders
- Gastrocneimius medial head rupture
- Genital herpes - leg pain
- Glassy cell carcinoma of the cervix - leg pain
- Gout
- Grand-Kaine-Fulling syndrome - leg pain
- Growing pains - such as leg pain occurring at night in a child.
- Growth plate injuries - leg pain
- Hip pain
- Hydatid cyst in the spine
- Hypertension due to coarctation of the aorta - leg cramps
- Hypomagnesemia primary - leg cramps
- Iliac stenosis
- Iliotibial Band Syndrome - thigh pain
- Impingement syndromes
- Infection
- Inflammatory pelvic pain - Leg pain
- Intermittent claudication - calf muscle pain from walking
- Intervertebral disc disease - leg pain
- Intervertebral disc herniation
- Irritation of the meninges by hemorrhage
- Ischemia
- Juvenile osteoporosis - leg pain
- Knee pain
- Labour
- Leg conditions - Leg pain
- Leg cramp
- Leg injury - Leg pain
- Leg paresthesias - see also foot paresthesias
- Leg trauma
- Leriche syndrome
- Ligament strain
- Limb ischaemia
- Low potassium level
- Lymphedema hereditary type 1 - leg pain
- Lymphedema, hereditary - leg pain
- Lymphedema, hereditary, 1B - leg pain
- Lymphoedema - cleft palate - leg pain
- Lysuride
- Marfan syndrome - leg pain
- May-Thurner syndrome
- Meralgia paraesthetica
- Meralgia paresthetica - thigh pain
- Metastatic bone tumor
- Morphine withdrawal - aching legs
- Muscle cramps
- Muscle strain
- Myelitis - Leg pain
- Nerve entrapment
- Neuroectodermal tumors primitive - leg pain
- Neurofibroma of the sciatic nerve
- Neuropathy - ataxia - retinitis pigmentosa - leg pain
- Neuropathy ataxia and retinis pigmentosa - leg pain
- Neuropathy, hereditary, sensory, radicular - leg pain
- Night cramps
- Non-inflammatory pelvic pain - Leg pain
- Obturator hernia
- Occlusive vascular disease
- OHSS - calf pain
- Opioid withdrawal - leg cramps
- Osgood-Schlatter's disease
- Osteoarthritis, Hip - thigh pain
- Osteomalacia - leg bone pain
- Osteomyelitis - leg bone pain
- Over-exertion or injury
- Paget's disease
- Paresthesias
- Patellar tendinitis
- Patello-femoral pain syndrome
- Patellofemoral malalignment
- Patellofemoral problems
- Penetrating injury of the sciatic nerve
- Pergolide
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Peripheral vascular disease - leg pain
- Perthe's disease
- Phlebitis
- Piribedil
- Plantaris tendon rupture
- Polycythemia vera
- Polymyalgia rheumatica - thigh pain
- Polyneuritis
- Popliteal cyst - also Baker's cyst
- Popliteal stenosis
- Porphyria, Ala-D - leg pain
- Postherpetic neuralgia
- Postphlebitic syndrome
- Previous hip injury
- Previous knee injury
- Prolapsed intervertebral disc
- Propranolol
- Prostate Cancer - upper thigh pain
- Pseudothrombophlebitis syndrome
- Referred leg pain - getting leg pain when the real cause of the pain is elsewhere.
- Restless leg syndrome
- Restless legs syndrome - leg pain
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rickets
- Ropinirole
- Sciatica - leg pain
- Scurvy
- See also causes of calf pain or calf swelling
- Shin pain
- Shin splints - see also causes of shin splints
- Spastic paraplegia 4, autosomal dominant - leg cramps
- Spinal abscess
- Spinal canal infection
- Spinal claudication
- Spinal condition
- Spinal conditions - Leg pain
- Spinal Cord Disorders - Leg pain
- Spinal disc condition
- Spinal fracture - Leg pain
- Spinal infection
- Spinal injection
- Spinal stenosis - leg pain
- Spinal tumor
- Spondylitis - Leg pain
- Spondylolisthesis
- Spondylosis - leg pain
- Sports Injuries - Leg pain
- St. Anthony's fire - burning leg pain
- Strain or sprain
- Stress fractures
- Synovial impingement
- Syringomyelia - leg pain
- Thigh conditions - Thigh pain
- Thigh injury - Thigh pain
- Thigh pain
- Thrombophlebitis
- Trochanteric bursitis
- Varicose veins - leg aches after standing still
- Venous claudication
- Venous insufficiency
- Venous stasis ulcers
- Vertebral tumor
Drug side effect causes of Leg pain
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins
may possibly cause Leg pain as a side effect.
- Irbesartan
- Avopro
- Karvea
- Madopar
- Kinson
Medical Textbooks about Leg pain
Free online access to excerptswithout registration is available to view excerpts from medical textbooks about the causes and diagnosis of Leg pain. Refer to our list of medical textbooks discussions about Leg pain (Free online access to book excerpts, no registration).
- "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
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