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Severe left calf pain. how to alleviate?

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Dr. Thomas Deberardino answered

Specializes in Orthopedic Surgery

Possible muscle tear: You are in the correct age range to sustain a variable tear of the muscle belly of the calf (gastrocnemius) muscle in its muscle belly just below the knee joint. With such injury a hematoma may form within the muscle which can cause considerable pain until the hematoma resolves slowly with time, compression, rest and ice.

Answered 3/13/2021

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