Leg numbness caused by cerebral infarction is generally caused by damage to the nerves in the central nervous system that conduct superficial sensations in the legs.
Cerebral infarction is a kind of ischemic cerebrovascular disease, local cerebral tissue ischemia and hypoxia, necrosis of nerve cells, and its corresponding function loss, and then appeared with the necrosis of the brain tissue function of the necrosis of the neurological deficit symptoms, unilateral numbness of the limbs are mostly seen in the thalamus and frontal lobe of the cerebral infarction.
The numbness of limbs caused by thalamus infarction is mostly manifested as the numbness of upper and lower limbs on the opposite side of the lesion, and the degree of numbness of upper and lower limbs is basically the same, while the numbness of limbs caused by frontal lobe infarction can be the numbness of single limb, or the numbness of upper and lower limbs, and the numbness of upper and lower limbs is often not the same.
Numbness of the limbs is one of the common clinical symptoms of cerebral infarction, and the recovery is also slow, it is recommended that the patient relaxes the mind, do not be impatient, and actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment, in order to control the condition and improve the symptoms.