Calf muscle pain may be caused by overwork, or muscle injury, varicose veins in the lower extremities, lumbar disc herniation and other factors.
1. Overwork: long time to do heavy labor or too much activity, running and walking for a long time, it may lead to the accumulation of lactic acid in the body, appearing foot and calf area muscle pain and swelling.
2. Muscle injury: If you don’t do enough warm-up activities before exercise, it may cause the whole body muscle overextension, which leads to muscle injury. It is not excluded that muscle injury is caused by external force, which may cause swelling and pain in the calf muscle, accompanied by soft tissue inflammatory lesions.
3. Varicose veins of the lower limbs: Varicose veins of the lower limbs are caused by the expansion and tortuosity of the saphenous veins of the lower limbs, which will produce soreness and fatigue of the affected limbs, and also lead to the insufficient blood supply of the lower limbs, which will result in the soreness of the feet and calves as well as pain in the muscles of the legs and legs, and in severe cases, it will be accompanied by complications such as ulcers of the calves and superficial phlebitis.
4. Lumbar disc herniation: after the lumbar disc degeneration and herniation compresses the nerve roots of the lower limbs, there may be symptoms such as radiating pain and numbness in the lower limbs, and there may be foot and calf muscle pain.
There are other reasons for the above symptoms, such as trauma, thromboembolic vasculitis, infection and so on. If the rest does not relieve, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time to improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and follow the doctor’s instructions to carry out targeted treatment to avoid delaying the condition.