Common symptoms you may experience are aching pain in the bone which is present during both the day and night. If it is a bone fracture, your pain typically doesn’t settle when you’re at rest, unlike stress fractures, when pain is primarily felt during weight-bearing exercise and only occasionally occurs at night.
Bone fractures generally occur as a result of a single incident, meaning you can probably pinpoint the exact time when it occurred, such as from a heavy knock, or if the bone was exposed to a high load from a major fall etc. It will often feel like the bone itself is sore instead of the surrounding muscles, and you can often pinpoint the exact sore spot.
Anti-inflammatory medications and resting in a comfortable position can help to ease your pain, however your body’s pain is signalling to you that something isn’t quite right. Therefore, if you suspect a bone fracture, you should get it investigated by a medical professional as soon as possible to prevent any serious future complications.
Circulation pain
4. Blood clots
Blood clots often occur to people who have recently been travelling, especially those that were on long distance flights or sitting for long periods of time.
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The physical presence of a blood clot will alert you to something being wrong. Common symptoms include:
- It usually only affects one leg
- Abnormal redness
- Pain in your leg that is throbbing or cramping
- May be localised warmth and swelling
It is strongly recommended that you seek help from a medical professional as soon as possible if you are experiencing any of these symptoms.
5. Vein issues
Varicose veins are enlarged, swollen and twisted veins that are the result of poor circulation, and are particularly common in people with fluid retention issues. This means the veins aren’t working as well as they should, so over the course of the day, the pressure in your leg can increase from leaky valves or weakened vein walls. This creates an aching pain and heavy feeling in your legs, which worsens at night after a day spent mostly on your feet.
To aid the pumping of “pooling blood” you can try the following:
- Walking and being active gets your blood moving.
- Calf raises when you are seated to aid compression of the veins to push the blood back up to the heart.
- Elevating your legs to encourage gravity to aid returning of blood flow back up your legs to your heart.
- Discuss your symptoms with your GP.
- Medical grade compression stockings dispensed by one of our podiatrists.
6. Artery disease
