About 10% of PAD patients have a severe form of leg pain, known as claudication.
WSJ: Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) - When Achy Legs Are a Warning
Leg pain, in turn, can cause people to limit their physical activity, posing a threat to their overall physical health.
WSJ: Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) - When Achy Legs Are a Warning
At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Las Vegas in February 2009, Norton's Dr. Glassman presented a study on lumbar fusions that showed a significant improvement in fused patients' back pain, leg pain and other quality-of-life measures, both one and two years after their surgery.
Just every time I get over to my left side, I'm getting a shooting pain down my leg.
Some shotgun pellets still her leg cause her "shooting pain", and she has loss of feeling below her knee.
"I was little bit behind the ball and not reacting as fast and not having then right balance on my shots, but the most important thing is I don't have pain in my leg, " she said.
In June 1990 at the age of 53, Caplan started having pain in his left leg.
Immediately after the blast, an incredible pain shot through his leg, and an unbearable thought kept going through his mind: Where is my daughter?
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The 11-time grand slam winner was given a stern examination by the man ranked 34 in the world, who eventually succumbed after suffering pain in his left leg.
"Whenever we touched his leg, he was in tremendous pain, " says orthopedic specialist, Bassam Singer, who is working to help the victims of cluster bombs recover a semblance of normalcy.
He returned to Pakistan, walking with the help of a cane, complaining of back pain, a bad leg and a torn eardrum -- all the result, he says, of his time in custody.
But he slowed up clutching his leg and fell to the ground in pain.
If anything, he said, she should be running on the leg that was giving her all the pain.
"I twisted my leg violently in the first test and the pain was unbearable, " said the 2010 champion.
Decreased oxygenation of leg muscles due to peripheral vascular disease and the pain of diabetic neuropathy can also be mistaken for cramps.
The lineup for Team USA in the men's race changed after the semifinal, when Manteo Mitchell remarkably found a way to finish his opening leg after feeling his fibula breaks but continuing to run through the pain.
His work in neurology has helped patients with phantom limb pain, a particularly cruel affliction for people who have lost an arm or a leg.
He was immediately in obvious pain, and received oxygen before being taken off on a stretcher with h is right leg immobilised.
Her father reclined across the back seat, pain medication making his sentences syrupy, his bare toes at the end of a heavy full-leg cast resting on the door handle.
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