How to Identify Leg Bone Pain

Leg bone pain can be caused by various conditions ranging from arthritis to nerve damage. If you are experiencing bone pain in your leg, it is important to try and get to the root cause of your discomfort. In order to properly treat the pain in your legs, you need to figure out what has happened to cause your leg pain. Here are some steps to take to identify your leg bone pain.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. The first step in identifying the pain in your legs is to write down all of your symptoms. Start a journal and list things such as when the pain started, what preceded the pain, whether movement or stillness makes the pain worse, etc. Also try and describe the pain as to whether it burns, is stabbing, throbbing, etc. Write down as much as you can to describe the leg bone pain you are experiencing.

2. The next step is to visit your doctor for a diagnosis of your leg pain. Explain all of your symptoms. Your doctor will start to run some tests to try and get to the root cause of your leg bone pain.

3. The next step is to start ruling out various conditions. Look at your symptoms and start ruling out conditions such as bone infection (osteomyelitis), injury, trauma, leukemia, osteoporosis, overuse, sickle cell anemia or other disruption of blood supply, cancer, etc. There are many different things that may be causing your leg bone pain and the only way to understand the cause is start the process of elimination.

Tips & Warnings

• If your doctor is not willing to work with you and order the tests that you want done, you need to find a new doctor. You will only get to the root of your leg bone pain with the help of a proactive doctor.