Walking often feels sleepy legs, generally refers to the symptoms of leg pain and weakness after walking, and is considered to be related to lumbar spinal stenosis, leg vascular disease, degenerative joint disease, muscle strain and other reasons.
1. Lumbar spinal stenosis: With lumbar spinal stenosis, intermittent claudication, low back pain, radiating pain in the lower limbs and other symptoms will occur. Intermittent claudication refers to the occurrence of leg numbness and leg pain after walking a certain distance, which will get better after proper rest, and then reoccur when walking for a certain distance, and so on and so forth.
2. Vascular diseases of the legs: such as arteriosclerosis of the legs, varicose veins and so on, these lesions will affect the blood circulation of the legs, which will also cause the symptoms of walking leg pain.
3. Degenerative joint diseases: such as hip arthritis, knee arthritis, etc., there will be degenerative damage to the joint cartilage and synovial inflammation, which will cause joint pain and swelling, and you will often feel leg pain and weakness after walking.
4. Muscle strain: Long-term exertion or excessive exercise causes accumulation of lactic acid in the leg muscles or strain, causing leg pain and weakness when walking, generally relieved after rest.
Walking often feel sleepy legs, there are other reasons, such as cerebrovascular disease, lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, etc., such as rest does not relieve, it is recommended to improve timely medical examination, clear cause of the disease, and then comply with the doctor’s instructions for targeted treatment, so as not to delay the condition.