What are the dangers of stilted legs?

Long-term leg bending may cause leg varicose veins or thrombosis, in which case the knee is compressed, which can easily affect the blood circulation of the lower limbs. If the blood circulation is blocked, it is likely to cause varicose veins or thrombosis in the legs, especially for the elderly with high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, which will aggravate the condition. Modern people love to cross their legs.

However, when sitting on his legs, he is prone to bend over and hunch, resulting in uneven distribution of pressure between the lumbar spine and the thoracic spine, which will inevitably compress the spinal nerves and cause lower back pain in the long run. According to the person in charge of the New York City Vein Center, the leg can also hinder the blood circulation in the legs, resulting in varicose veins in the legs, and in severe cases, there are often poor venous return, bruised tendons, ulcers, phlebitis, bleeding and other diseases.

1 The direct effect is to cause poor blood flow in the legs, which is not only not conducive to slimming the legs, but also may induce edema and varicose veins of the lower limbs for a long time, 2 When the legs are stilted, the lumbar and thoracic vertebrae are in a bent state, which is particularly easy to lead to low back pain and a hunched posture with chest, is it ugly, 3 When the legs are stilted, the knee and hip joints are twisted.

The harm of this bad sitting posture is varied, and the degree is very serious, and the common hazards are as follows:

First, when the legs are stilted, there may be some adverse effects on the patient's spine, and if the teenager often stilts the legs, it may lead to postural scoliosis.

Second, stilted legs may lead to damage to some joints, such as hip and knee joints.

Third, the stilted leg may lead to insufficient blood in the lower limbs on one side, because when the legs are stilted, the important arteries of the lower limbs will be twisted, stretched, and compressed, which will lead to insufficient blood in the lower limbs on one side, and it is very likely to cause some pain, numbness or muscle atrophy in the lower limbs on this side due to insufficient blood after a long time.

Fourth, it is also very easy to induce some peripheral nerve lesions, such as lumbar disc herniation or sciatica.

The stilted leg affects one's sciatic nerve. Since the stilted leg compresses the femoral nerve on the inside of the large leg, if the femoral nerve is often compressed, it is easy to make people feel paralyzed, and the symptoms of loss of sensation in the whole leg will occur over time. This is also known as nerve compression syndrome in medicine.

Originally, we could hold the center of gravity with two legs, and we can only rely on one leg to control the center of gravity, which naturally increases the pressure on the spine to maintain the balance of the body with one foot. In this way, it is easy to cause symptoms such as scoliosis, intervertebral disc damage, protruding bone pelvis, lumbar spine and spinal deviation for a long time, which not only takes effect slowly, but also causes low back pain, lower back pain, and becomes long and short feet.

What are the hazards of stilted legs?

1. Varicose veins on the legs.

The main blood vessels that supply blood to the lower limbs pass through the popliteal fossa, and when the leg is stilted, one knee is just against the popliteal fossa of the other leg, and the blood vessels are compressed and will affect the blood circulation in the legs, which may cause varicose veins over time.

2. Cause deformation of the spine.

The sitting posture of the stilted legs has a very serious impact on the spine, and the normal spine of the human body should be "S" shaped from the side, while the stilted legs are easy to bend over and hunch. Over time, the spine will deform into a "C" shape, resulting in uneven pressure distribution between the lumbar and thoracic spine. Over time, it can also compress the spinal nerves, causing back pain.

3. Cause pelvic distortion.

If you often stilt your legs, the balance of the muscles that balance the two legs will be disrupted, causing the pelvis to be crooked. A crooked pelvis can lead to long and short legs, high and low shoulders, and may also cause scoliosis.

4. Increase the risk of O-shaped legs.

When the leg is stilted, due to the uneven force on the upper leg, it deviates inward, which may cause the pressure of the medial knee joint space to increase, resulting in aggravated cartilage wear.

The "fibular collateral ligament" located on the outside of the knee joint is continuously stretched to loosen it, which may lead to the formation of a knee subluxation on the basis of the existing osteoarthritis, and the appearance of an O-shaped leg is formed.

5. Damage to lower back muscles.

When people stilt Erlang's legs, they are easy to bend over and hunch, resulting in uneven pressure distribution among the lumbar spine, thoracic spine and spine, and over time, it is easy to cause back muscle fatigue and soreness.

6. Increase blood pressure.

Gravity needs to be overcome when blood flows back to the heart, but when the leg is pressed, it becomes more difficult to overcome gravity. In this case, the body can only ensure that blood continues to flow back to the heart by temporarily increasing blood pressure.

7. Early onset of degenerative arthritis.

Although the stilted legs will not make people suffer from osteoarthritis in a short period of time, it will increase the pressure on the internal structure of the knee joint, and for the elderly who have already degenerated the cartilage structure to varying degrees, it will increase the risk of osteoarthritis.

8. Disturb the nerves in the legs.

One of the main nerves in the leg is located under the knee and on the outside of the leg, and the pressure generated by the stilted leg can compress the nerve, causing numbness in the leg muscles. The common peroneal nerve runs from the knee joint to the outside of the thigh, and the common peroneal nerve in the upper leg is just compressed when the leg is stilted, which can cause nerve damage if it takes too long. [Shaanxi Science Popularization].