Lumbar pain with leg pain may be a lumbar disc herniation, or it may be a short period of time to carry out too strenuous exercise.
1. Lumbar disc herniation: Most of them are caused by degenerative changes in the intervertebral discs after ageing, and may also be caused by serious injuries to the intervertebral discs or pregnancy. The main symptom of lumbar disc herniation is lumbar pain, which is the first symptom of the disease. As the disease worsens, lumbar pain and leg pain will appear at the same time, and may be accompanied by numbness of the lower limbs or sciatica.
2. Strenuous exercise: if the daily exercise is relatively small, in a sudden too strenuous exercise, may lead to lumbar or leg muscle sprain, and during exercise, due to the increase in local oxygen consumption, blood circulation will be affected to a certain extent, so that the phenomenon of lumbar pain and leg pain will occur, but generally belong to the muscle pain.
Patients can relieve the pain by applying hot compresses when they have back pain as well as leg pain, and if it is serious, medication should be used under the guidance of a professional physician, and the primary disease should be treated at the same time.