It is said that old cold legs, do you know the reason for old cold legs?

Old cold leg is a new popular word in recent years, which refers to the body is too cold, and the calf will be cold and painful on a rainy day, and in severe cases, there will be numbness.

There is no such thing as "old cold legs" in medical terms, and old cold legs are a folk common name, which is due to the degenerative diseases of the knee joint and the arteriosclerosis of the blood vessels of the lower limbs, causing symptoms such as soreness, pain, and numbness in the legs. When encountering cold air or seasonal changes, the symptoms are easy to reverse, and they cannot be cured for a long time, which brings great pain to the patient.

1. So what are the symptoms of old cold legs?

1. Joint soreness is the most typical symptom of old cold legs in the early stage, which will cause obvious pain in the joints after exercising or after too much walking and exertion, such as weight-bearing walking, going up and down stairs, and mountaineering, and there will also be a feeling of swelling.

2. In the case of cold weather and wet weather, it will cause aggravation of joint pain symptoms, and the pain generally occurs between or around the knee joint, that is, the inner part of the knee joint.

3. Old cold legs will also have symptoms of joint swelling, this swelling is due to fluid accumulation in the knee joint, or it may be caused by soft tissue degeneration and hyperplasia, if you touch it with your hands, there will be obvious edema, and there is a possibility of fever.

2. How is the old cold leg caused?

1. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the old cold legs are caused by excessive moisture and cold in the body, and when the cold value in the body reaches a critical point, it will accumulate in the joints, resulting in the onset of cold in the joints, and the heat is relieved, and if it is not paid attention to, it will often cause hemiplegia and inconvenient walking.

2. Western medicine believes that the old cold legs are caused by vascular factors, especially the elderly, the blood vessels of the elderly are prone to arteriosclerosis, and arteriosclerosis will increase the probability of suffering from the old cold legs, resulting in blood blockage, and ischemia will cause pain.

3. How to prevent old cold legs.

1. In cold weather, pay attention to the knees not to get cold, wear autumn pants and warm pants if necessary, and you can also choose local joint knee pads to prevent the invasion of moisture and cold.

2. Participate in sports frequently, mainly aerobic exercises, such as jogging, yoga, etc., to prevent arteriosclerosis and reduce the chance of suffering from cold legs.

Finally how to ** old cold legs.

Patients with cold legs can also do acupuncture and physiotherapy to relieve symptoms while paying attention to keeping their lower limbs warm. Or eat foods that improve circulation, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. In addition, most of the elderly have osteoporosis, so calcium supplementation is recommended**.

The scientific name of the old cold leg is knee osteoarthritis, which is a non-inflammatory, degenerative osteoarthritis, most patients will have a feeling of soreness, numbness, pain, pain and other sensations in the legs, especially the knee joints.

Most of the patients with old cold legs are elderly, but strictly speaking, there is no absolute relationship between old cold legs and age, but with age, the probability of suffering from old cold legs will also increase, and the condition is more serious, but young people may also suffer from old cold legs if they do not pay more attention.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the old cold legs belong to the category of "paralysis", which is mostly related to the evil of external wind, cold, dampness, heat and the lack of righteousness in the human body, for example, some young people who do not pay attention to keeping warm often expose their legs to the cold environment, so that the legs are attacked by wind cold and moisture, and it is possible to suffer from old cold legs.

It may be related to poor blood circulation, anemia, and cold legs, and it is recommended that patients pay attention to warmth, healthy diet, moderate exercise, hot compress acupuncture, and if necessary, consider oral medication to relieve symptoms. 1. Causes of cold legs 1Poor local blood circulation:

The main consideration for cold legs is that the local blood circulation is relatively poor, which may be frequent contact with cold water or wind.

Because of the excessive moisture and cold in the body, when the cold value in the body reaches the critical point, it will accumulate in the joints, resulting in the onset of cold in the joints, and the heat is relieved, which often causes hemiplegia and inconvenience in walking.

"Old cold legs" is medically known as knee degenerative arthritis (or osteoarthritis, knee osteoarthropathy), because it will aggravate the pain when the climate turns cold, cloudy and rainy, and the patients are mainly middle-aged and elderly, so it is commonly known as "old cold legs".

As we age, the disease gets more severe. In the early stage, there is often vague pain in both or one knee joint, which is worse with activity and relieved with rest. Symptoms worsen when it rains on cloudy days and when the climate cools.

Sometimes there is an acute onset of pain, stiffness of the joints, and a snapping sound with movement. Joint stiffness worsens after sitting for a long time, and improves slightly after activity.

Old cold leg refers to the soreness and numbness of the leg (mostly the knee joint) that has not been cured for a long time and is reversed, and most of them occur when the weather turns cold. Because old cold legs are more common in middle-aged and elderly people, they are also called senile arthritis.

The full medical name of "Old Cold Legs" is "arteriosclerosis occlusion of lower limbs", also known as "rheumatoid arthritis". It refers to the day when it is cloudy and rainy, the weather is cooler or colder, and the knee joint is cold and painful.

Because the knee joint is the largest joint in the human body, it bears almost the weight of the whole body, the burden is heavy, and the activity is large, and the articular cartilage is easy to wear and tear and destroy. When people are old, they are accompanied by hyperlipidemia, and arteriosclerotic plaques of the lower limbs gradually form on the inner wall of the arteries, proliferating and protruding into the blood vessels. As the plaque expands and secondary thrombosis develops, the blood vessels become narrowed, blood flow slows down, and blood flow decreases.

When the stenosis reaches a certain level, or even occludes the lumen, the blood supplied to the lower limbs cannot meet the needs, and ischemia will occur, making the lower limbs feel cold.

3. How to prevent cold legs (1) To improve the health quality of the whole body, people should pay special attention to the rules of life when they are middle-aged, prevent trauma or overwork, ensure sleep and nutrition, moderate diet, and prevent excessive obesity to reduce joint weight. (2) Pay attention to the health care of the knee joint, pay attention to the warmth and cold protection of the knee joint, and prevent the joint from being invaded by cold and moisture, and use knee pads. It is also necessary to do reasonable physical exercise, which can promote the absorption of nutrients by the articular cartilage and maintain the range of motion of the joint.

At the same time, it is necessary to combine work and rest to avoid excessive activity and damage to the joints. You can choose to do tai chi, jogging, walking, gymnastics and other exercise methods, and be consistent. The amount of activity is based on physical comfort and slight sweating, and it is important to persevere.

Some elderly people often exercise in a half-squat position, swaying their knee joints back and forth, left and right. Because the pressure on the patellar surface is the greatest during semi-squatting, shaking will aggravate the wear and tear, resulting in the occurrence of knee osteoarthritis, so this exercise method is not advisable. (3) In addition, it is not advisable to climb the mountain, because going up and down the mountain will increase the burden on the knee joint and easily damage the joint cartilage.

1) Following the principle of traditional Chinese medicine that the symptoms are treated in case of emergency, and the root cause is treated in a slow manner, patients with acute pain can be treated with local closure and nerve blockade in Western medicine, and non-steroidal drugs such as indomethacin and ibuprofen can also be used to quickly relieve pain. If there is a joint effusion, the fluid can be withdrawn and drugs such as prednisone can be injected at the same time. However, although this drug can control the symptoms relatively quickly, it has adverse effects on the articular cartilage, and should not be used continuously or in large quantities.

2) Adopt the methods of internal and external treatment such as internal administration of traditional Chinese medicine and external application of acupuncture and massage, and choose products that relax the tendons and channels, dispel cold and remove dampness, such as Gastrodia eucommia pills, Zhuanggu and Joint Pills, Shujin and Huoxue tablets, etc., and can also choose musk chasing wind cream, dog skin ointment, external paste of injury and dampness pain relief ointment, or rinse bone water, safflower oil and other medicines. Pay attention to the choice of national quasi-brand Chinese patent medicine, and do not easily listen to the so-called home remedies and test prescriptions, because many so-called home remedies test prescriptions are adulterated with hormones, and long-term use will cause adverse damage to the body.

Old cold leg is your leg, there is a serious rheumatic leg disease, in winter, or when you are slightly cold, it will be extra painful, extra swollen, and even dare not walk, feel particularly cold, a little warmer, just feel a little relieved better, this is called old cold legs.

Leg pain may be caused by neurological causes, generally take medication**, often take analgesics, vitamin B group, short-course corticosteroid hormones, etc., and then combined with external Chinese medicine pain patches. You can also irradiate with ultra-short waves, erythema UV light, etc.**. Good luck soon**!

The old cold leg is mainly due to the degenerative changes of the articular cartilage, which relaxes the ligaments around the joint, atrophies or proliferates the synovial membrane of the joint, and reduces the secretion of synovial fluid, which in turn causes symptoms such as inconvenient joint movement, swelling and pain. In winter, the climate becomes cooler, and rain and snow weather are the main triggers for its ** or aggravation.

The so-called "old cold legs" refer to joint pain, and it mostly occurs in joints with less muscles around the joints and more exposed, and less clothing covers, such as knee joints, ankle joints and finger joints. The pain worsens when the weather is cold, and it relieves as the weather warms. Studies have confirmed that the normal synovial tissue of the human body can adapt to various changes in the air.

However, when a person's synovial tissue becomes inflamed (i.e., develops synovitis), especially when chronic synovitis develops, the ability to adapt and adjust to climate change will be significantly reduced, and what is commonly referred to as "old cold legs" will occur. Old cold legs are a chronic disease, and moderate physical exercise can prevent muscle atrophy and strengthen the leg muscles. For example, tai chi, jogging and gymnastics, etc., the amount of activity should be comfortable and slightly sweating, and the most important thing is perseverance.

The main symptom of old cold legs is mostly knee joint pain, so some patients aim at the knee joint and often use a half-squat position to shake the knee joint back and forth. In fact, this is unscientific, because the knee joint is under the most pressure during the half-squat, and the shaking will increase the wear and tear, resulting in aggravated pain. Patients can use medications, acupuncture, massage, etc.** for knee pain.

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Old cold leg is actually a chronic osteoarthritis characterized by cold lower limbs, in cold weather, it will aggravate the soreness and pain of the lower limbs, resulting in staggering walking, also known as "degenerative osteoarthritis".

After a certain age, the knee joint undergoes degeneration, and chronic knee osteoarthritis is prone to occur due to years of wear and tear. Affected by changes in ambient temperature, it is easy to attack when the ambient temperature becomes low, and symptoms such as joint stiffness, pain, and chills appear.

Knee arthritis is often aggravated when the climate is cold, cloudy and rainy; The elderly have insufficient liver and kidneys, less sperm and blood, and are more likely to suffer from knee arthritis, so most of the patients with old cold legs are mainly elderly, and the name of "old cold legs" also comes from this.

In traditional Chinese medicine, this disease belongs to the category of traditional Chinese medicine paralysis, also known as "degenerative osteoarthritis", which is a disease caused by wind, cold, dampness, heat, phlegm, stasis and other evil qi blocking the meridians, affecting the flow of qi and blood, resulting in pain, heaviness, soreness and numbness in the limbs, muscles, joints, muscles, etc., or unfavorable flexion and extension of the joints, stiffness, swelling, deformation and other symptoms. Ming Li Zhongzi in "Medical Sect Must Read: Paralysis" cloud: "Those who govern outside the country are in a hurry to disperse evil spirits, and those who govern Tibet, the first thing is to raise righteousness."

The ** of degenerative osteoarthritis of the knee is mainly conservative, and there are many methods. It can be integrated with traditional Chinese medicine internal administration, traditional Chinese medicine fumigation, acupuncture, massage, physiotherapy, exercises, etc.

In addition to various **, moderate physical exercise can promote the absorption of nutrients by the articular cartilage, maintain the range of motion of the joint, prevent the stiffness, adhesion, deformity and muscle atrophy of the lower limb joints, enhance the strength of the leg muscles, and relieve leg discomfort.

Originally, the incidence of old cold legs was very high in some middle-aged and elderly people, but now many young people are more beautiful, even in winter, they wear particularly thin, and in summer, the temperature of the air conditioner will be adjusted to be particularly low, so that the cold air enters the body and other reasons, many young people also have the problem of old cold legs early, but some people do not know that although they have old cold legs, it is necessary to understand the symptoms of old cold legs, so what are the symptoms of old cold legs?

First, the legs are heavy. Because old cold leg is a common name for knee osteoarthritis, it is closely related to climate change, so people with old cold leg always feel that the affected limb is sore, heavy and weak, especially in rainy weather, this symptom will be more serious.

2. Morning stiffness. People with cold legs will feel very stiff and inflexible after getting up every morning, but after appropriate activities, this symptom can be relieved to a certain extent.

3. Pain. People with old cold legs, knee joint often have dull pain symptoms, if some activities, or some physical labor knee pain symptoms will be aggravated, generally after more rest, the symptoms can be relieved to a certain extent.

Fourth, afraid of cold. Because this disease has a lot to do with cold, the patient's condition will be more serious when it rains or when the weather turns cold.

5. Muscle weakness.

After suffering from old cold legs, patients always feel that the muscles around their knee joints are becoming less and less powerful, especially when going up and down stairs, it will be particularly obvious, and the muscles will feel sore, and it will be particularly difficult to go up and down the stairs in severe cases.