Greetings! Thank you for your questions.

First and foremost, we truly understand your concerns regarding your mother’s symptom. For your information, the condition may has multifactorial causes such as:

• Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)
• muscle injury
• muscle cramping
• Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI)
• Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
• Compartment Syndrome

For the treatment, the underlying causes must be recognized and treated as well. You may need to bring your mother to see a doctor, if she experienced symptoms as the following:

• Signs of infection, such as redness, warmth or tenderness, or fever
• A leg that is swollen, pale or unusually cool
• Calf pain, particularly after prolonged sitting
• Swelling in both legs along with breathing problems
• Any serious leg symptoms that develop for no apparent reason

The following answers regarding your current queries are just general descriptions. In order for us to provide you with an accurate choice of treatment and management, we need additional details to explore further into your current complaints. Therefore, we greatly suggest that you refer this to your nearest medical doctor for full examination with imaging studies. You may also click on this link (DoctorOnCall) to speak with our doctors online. We assure you that our conversations are kept in confidentiality unless additional consultation needed with other medical parties. Thank you.