What’s wrong with right calf pain in older women

Elderly women’s right calf pain may be related to physiological reasons such as stimulation by cold, longer exercise, or pathologic reasons such as lumbar disc herniation. 1. Physiological reasons: if the right calf muscle is stimulated by cold air, it may lead to poor local blood flow, resulting in soreness; or elderly women do not exercise for a long time, in a short period of time, long-distance walking, running, etc., resulting in the accumulation of lactic acid in the muscle, which is more difficult to absorb in a short period of time, resulting in pain. 2. Pathological reasons: with age, the lumbar long-term posture leads to lumbar disc herniation, the protruding disc compresses the dural sac and spinal nerve root, radiating to the sciatic nerve, causing pain. Elderly women with right calf pain, there may be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.