Leg straightening pain like a tendon pulled may be chronic strain, pear-shaped muscle syndrome, lumbar disc herniation, osteoarthritis and other causes.
1. Chronic strain injury: patients engaged in long-term heavy labor or cold, resulting in chronic injury to the leg muscles and soft tissues, resulting in muscle and soft tissue spasms, which triggered the phenomenon of straightening the leg pain like a tendon pulling phenomenon.
2. Piriformis syndrome: Piriformis syndrome because of the compression of the sciatic nerve, and the sciatic nerve can control the movement of the thigh, calf and foot muscles, and at the same time in charge of the calf and the foot sensation, when patients with piriformis syndrome stimulate the sciatic nerve, there will be a straightening of the leg pain like tendon pulling the phenomenon.
3. Lumbar disc herniation: when the patient’s lumbar disc degenerates, the nucleus pulposus will pass through the annulus fibrosus, causing the nucleus pulposus to protrude, compressing the nerve root and stimulating the sciatic nerve, which will lead to the patient’s stretching pain like a tendon pulling down the situation.
4. Osteoarthritis: leg straightening pain like a tendon pulling may be caused by osteoarthritis, hyperplasia of the bone on the muscles around the joints have stimulation, the main clinical manifestations of progressive joint pain, joint swelling and other symptoms.
It is recommended that patients go to the regular hospital in time, under the diagnosis of the doctor, according to the patient’s specific condition performance, targeted treatment, so as not to trigger the emergence of other diseases.