I am very healthy and active. However, I have pain in the upper part of my legs from time to time. It will linger for three or four days and go away. It seems to be in the muscle, sometimes inside my thigh and sometimes on the outside of my thigh, sometimes right and sometimes left side. What would cause this and how do I treat it?
Hi, thank you for providing the brief history of you. A thorough musculoskeletal assessment with MRI of lumbar spine is advised. Now since you are active and healthy, the injury to the soft tissues to the spine will lead to pinch of the nerve. In the initial stages the symptoms arises are little discomfort in the thighs and legs. But it is always misunderstood as just a muscular pain. But later stages this becomes big and lead to radiating pain in leg. Getting a thorough assessment done and MRI will help understand the pinching of the nerve. In many cases the MRI turns normal but the little touch of the disc to the nerve will alter the sensory pathways and later stages becomes different. Also, undergoing proper physical therapy should help stabilize the spine and these symptoms and the future ones can be controlled. In my clinical practice I see such symptoms and find that actual problem starts from the lumbar spine and needs a proper training. Physical therapy in the early stages helps the majority of patients and over a long run of 5-6 years we do not find mucChatDoctorplains as we keep a track of the patients and their symptoms quarterly. RegardsJay In Chat Doctor. 