Exercise-related chronic lower leg pain.

BACKGROUND

Musculoskeletal injuries result from physical activity and seem to have a dose-response relationship to the amount of that activity. The more exposure to training or sport the greater the risk of injury.

OBJECTIVE

This article examines the common causes of chronic exertional leg pain in the community.

DISCUSSION: The common presentations include muscle injury, medial tibial stress syndrome, stress fractures of the lower limb, chronic exertional compartment syndromes as well as nerve entrapments. A description of these and an algorithm to assist in the diagnostic dilemma are presented.