There is no specific medicine for leg pain in the elderly, and it is necessary to take appropriate treatment measures according to the cause of leg pain. There are many reasons for leg pain in the elderly, and rheumatoid arthritis (methotrexate, meloxicam, etc.), arteriosclerosis of the lower limbs (clopidogrel, hepcidium saponin sodium, etc.), osteoporosis (alendronate, losoprofen tablets, etc.) are generally considered to be the cause of the disease.
1. Rheumatoid arthritis: it is the more common cause of leg pain in the elderly, which can be manifested as redness, swelling and pain in the joints, and the symptoms are especially aggravated when the weather becomes cold, and can be treated with oral medicines such as meloxicam tablets, methotrexate, and prednisone acetate tablets.
2. Lower extremity atherosclerosis: intermittent claudication, lower extremity pain and other symptoms, oral clopidogrel, sodium heptaphyllum saponin and other drugs to treat, can be combined with surgery and other methods of synergistic treatment.
3. Osteoporosis: it can cause leg pain, and in serious cases, it can cause bone fracture, which can be treated with oral medicines such as Loxoprofen sodium tablets, vitamin D and alendronate.
There are many other causes of leg pain in the elderly, such as excessive exercise, trauma, osteoarthritis, necrosis of the femoral head and so on. If the pain is not relieved after resting, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time, improve the examination, and carry out targeted and standardized treatment after the cause of the disease is clearly diagnosed, and do not apply the above drugs by yourself, so as not to delay or aggravate the condition.