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What Causes Pain In Thigh And Lower Back?
Hi, good night I start feeling kind like a small pain in the right thigh than was sensible to touch just for a few seconds and after disappeared, after I felt like small pinches in the same thigh and in the lower back this start around 16th of october and now I feel pain in the leg and back. Can you help me please to understand what is happening, my general doctor says is ciatica but I don t feel this pain going from back to leg.
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
Hello,
Thanks for your query.
Pain in the thigh can be referred from the spine, the hip joint or from the bone and muscle in the thigh itself. A physical examination would indicate to a physician the likely site of the pain which could be further investigated with X-rays of your spine, hip and femur.
The nature of your pain suggests to me that this is more likely a hip joint or thigh muscle problem. If the pain is coming from your hip joint the most common diagnosis at your age would be osteoarthritis of the hip joint. A strain of the quadriceps muscle can also cause such pain, which will likely improve over a period of 2-3 weeks.
Antiinflammatory medciation, physiotherapy, massage may help your symptoms in the interim.
I do hope that you have found something helpful and I will be glad to answer any further query.
Take care
Thanks for your query.
Pain in the thigh can be referred from the spine, the hip joint or from the bone and muscle in the thigh itself. A physical examination would indicate to a physician the likely site of the pain which could be further investigated with X-rays of your spine, hip and femur.
The nature of your pain suggests to me that this is more likely a hip joint or thigh muscle problem. If the pain is coming from your hip joint the most common diagnosis at your age would be osteoarthritis of the hip joint. A strain of the quadriceps muscle can also cause such pain, which will likely improve over a period of 2-3 weeks.
Antiinflammatory medciation, physiotherapy, massage may help your symptoms in the interim.
I do hope that you have found something helpful and I will be glad to answer any further query.
Take care
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