Leg pain refers to discomfort, soreness, aching, or sharp pain felt anywhere from the hips and thighs down to the knees, calves, or lower legs. Some people experience leg aches or leg muscles pain after activity, while others feel shooting pain, nerve discomfort in leg, or pain from my lower back to my legs. Leg pain can be mild and short-term or develop into daily pain relief concerns that interfere with walking, standing, or sleeping.
In many cases, leg pain is connected to muscle strain, joint inflammation, nerve irritation, or lower back conditions. Pain may stay localized, such as pain left leg or thigh pain, or it may radiate downward, especially with lower back nerve compression. Because leg pain can come from muscles, joints, nerves, or the spine, proper pain management and leg therapy are essential for long-term pain relief and recovery.
We provide expert leg pain care for patients in Flushing, Queens, Bayside, Whitestone, Fresh Meadows, and other areas across New York.
Treatments range from conservative treatment to surgery. Our goal is to provide you with the best treatment plan to reduce pain, but these treatments do not change the underlying source of pain. Medical treatments are often used in combination such as: medications, physical therapy programs, and injection therapy.
Treats radiating pain; deposit the medication, typically steroids in the epidural space of the spine.
Targets a specific spinal nerve and deposit medication around the nerve at the point where it exits the intervertebral foramen (bony opening between adjacent vertebrae).
Treat pain stemming from a specific facet joint.
Deposit medication around the medial branches of spinal nerves. The medial branch is a nerve that sends pain signals to the brain from an arthritic facet joint. An injection directed around the medial branch can relieve neck and lower back pain.
Treats pain by lesioning medial branch nerves of the facet joints.
