What’s wrong with heel pain and leg pain in the elderly?

Heel pain and leg pain in the elderly, consider and joint degenerative lesions, lumbar spine disease, osteoporosis and other reasons. 1. Degenerative joint lesions: With age, degenerative joint lesions occur in many joints throughout the body, resulting in degenerative damage to articular cartilage and osteomalacia, which can cause heel pain and leg pain. 2. Lumbar spine diseases: such as lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, etc., these lesions will cause compression of the nerve root, resulting in lumbar pain, radiating pain in the thighs, calves, and heels, which will also cause heel pain and leg pain. 3. Osteoporosis: mostly seen in elderly patients, osteoporosis patients will have a decrease in the amount of bone and bone tissue microstructure damage, but also prone to fragility fracture, and will involve a number of joints, will also cause heel pain leg pain. Can be seen to cause the elderly heel pain leg pain causes more, and vasculitis and diabetes, etc., if the pain is serious or the symptoms have not been able to relieve, should go to the hospital in time for further diagnosis and treatment.