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Calf Pain

Calf pain can strike anyone, no matter your age or how active you are. Your calf, made up of the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, is essential for every step you take, every run, and every jump you make. When pain hits this area, it can range from a minor annoyance to a debilitating issue that disrupts your daily life and activities. 

In this article, we’ll dive into the root cause of calf pain and explore an effective treatment option for lasting calf pain relief.

 

Discover The Root Cause Of Your Calf Pain —
And The Most Effective Way To Treat It

Contributing Factors And Symptoms

One of the most common causes of neck pain is repetitive stress of the neck muscles, tendons, and ligaments within these structures. Individuals who spend most of their day sitting at work, or doing sedentary activities, have a high-risk factor for developing this condition. The risk for developing neck pain is highest for those who sit in poor posture, with the head in a flexed forward position.

Several other causes of neck pain are also posture related, such as herniated discs, whiplash injuries, and Osteoarthritis (developing from the wear and tear of cartilage and bones). Poor posture puts your cervical spine, disks, and muscles in the neck at risk of injury and damage.

Common Calf Pains

  • Muscle soreness
  • Muscle tightness
  • Radiating pain
  • Swelling
  • Charley horse or other cramping

Traditional Treatments Often Fall Short

Remedies for calf pain are often limited and provide only short-term relief.  Fortunately, there is another proven method that focuses on the root cause, resulting in lasting relief for both acute and chronic calf pain.

Ice, heat, and pain relief creams are topical remedies that might feel good when applied but usually wear off in a very short amount of time. 

General stretching and massage only provide short-term relief since their focus is on the site of the pain and not the root cause.

Over-the-counter and prescription meds only mask the pain temporarily, which often results in symptoms getting worse over time.

Traditional Treatments Usually Fail

Remedies for neck pain are often limited and provide only short-term relief.  Fortunately, there is another proven method that focuses on the root cause, resulting in lasting relief for both acute and chronic neck pain.

Ice, heat, and pain relief creams are topical remedies that might feel good when applied but usually wear off in a very short amount of time. 

General stretching and massage only provide short-term relief since their focus is on the site of the pain and not the root cause.

Over-the-counter and prescription meds only mask the pain temporarily, which often results in symptoms getting worse over time.

Steroid shots and surgeries are isolated to the location of the pain are unsuccessful when the root cause is elsewhere in the body.

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Treat The Root Cause

Calf Pain is usually caused by a posture imbalance
somewhere else in the body

Remedies applied directly to the calf are often ineffective because the root cause of the pain is usually an imbalance, muscle weakness, or crookedness elsewhere. Muscle tightness, tendonitis, or repetitive stress of the calf itself is only part of the problem that needs to be addressed. When you have calf pain, it’s important to look for deeper issues or imbalances higher up in the body.

If the natural sitting or standing alignment of the head, shoulders, spine, pelvis, knees, and feet are not balanced and level, then the calves become compromised. Often, sitting at a desk all day will change the hip and thigh bone positioning in such a way that the calves are held in a shortened position. This will cause chronic calf tightness, in turn causing the tendons and muscles to ache. Chronic tightness makes the calves prone to injury, and the tightness isn’t from overworking, but rather from sitting all day. In order to correct the problem completely, the whole body posture must be analyzed and corrected.

Solve Neck Pain With Posture Therapy

When Your joints are straight, there won't be anything for your nerves, joints, or muscles to complain about

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For treatment of calf pain to be truly effective, it must correct whole-body posture and straighten the joints from head to toe. Posture Therapy is the only method to date that provides personalized whole-body posture correction for lasting pain relief.  

Find someone certified in posture therapy, or try the PTX Therapy App. It is the first personal Posture Therapy app with a posture analyzer that can review your posture, consider your personal pains, history, and movement ability, and create a customized program from millions of possibilities. You’ll learn about your posture, then get a unique-to-you program so you can go from crooked to straight, and from pain-ful to pain-free.

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PTX Therapy is a virtual physical therapy mobile application that combines a revolutionary whole-body posture-focused method, with AI technology that instantly generates on-demand pain relief therapy tailored specifically for you.