Feels The Pain of Being Taken At Rest

When feeling ill, doctors normally tell patients to augment the break. But for specific conditions, the rest can really make the patient feels pain.

This condition is referred to as Rest Pain , which is pain that occurs or gets worse when the body is resting. 1 risk factor that causes it is claudication (atherosclerosis in the body section below).

Launched Surgery.usc.edu , on Monday (03/01/2011), claudication is a vessel blockage blood in the legs, causing discomfort, cramping or pain in the hips, legs or thighs calves.

On the condition that has not been severe, claudication usually occurs during physical activity such as walking, and then will be cured with a short break (2 -5 minutes).

But at the condition continues or gets worse, pain may well occur or get worse when the body is at rest, such as sitting, lying, or time will stand.

On normal circumstances, blood flow can improve up to ten times to meet increased demand additional oxygen to the muscles trained. However, when the blocked leg arteries, blood flow can not increase in response to exercise, so the growing pains.

If you still feel pain while performing a rest, mean arterial leg can no longer supply adequate blood flow to the foot. The pain is normally much more severe when the foot lay in bed at night.

Rest Pain Risk Factors together with risk factors that trigger illness coronary artery or heart illness, namely:

  1. Smoking
  2. High blood pressure (hypertension)
  3. high blood cholesterol or triglycerides (hypercholesterolemia, hyperlipidemia)
  4. Lack of exercise or physical activity

    5. Overweight

  6. Diabetes
  7. family history of heart illness or artery illness

Smoking is the most influential of all risk factors. Although the mechanism of smoking trigger or worsen claudication is unclear, it is recognized that the level of damage to the lining of the arterial wall is directly related to the amount of tobacco employed. Quitting smoking is extremely important in the fight against the progression of claudication.

Symptoms of claudication among others:

  1. reduction in the growth of hair on legs
  2. discoloration foot becomes pale or bluish

    3. Reduced

  3. pulse in the foot
  4. temperature differences in the foot, became very cold.
  5. Changes in sensation (numbness, tingling, cramps, pain)
  6. wound on the foot becomes tough to recover
  7. The shrinking of the calf muscles
  8. Nails thickened foot