leg weakness
Unsteady lower limbs
Leg weakness is a reduced ability to support weight or move the legs normally, whether from fatigue, injury, illness, or strong emotion.
The phrase appears in medical contexts describing symptoms of neurological conditions, but also describes everyday sensations: I felt leg weakness after climbing six flights of stairs, The news gave me such leg weakness I had to sit down.
- wobblyTending to teeter
- tremblingInvoluntary shaking motion
- fatigueWeariness from prolonged exertion
- muscle fatigueLoss of contractile power
- numbnessLoss of sensation
buckling · unsteady · muscle · atrophy · paralysis · tingling · collapse · limp · shaky · frail · give out · stumble · falter · neuropathy · cane · wheelchair · exhaustion · crumple
- Disabilitiesblind, paralysis, vision loss, developmental disability, hearing impairment
- neurological symptomsnumbness, tremor, paralysis, aphasia, ataxia
- stroke symptomsslurred speech, hemiparesis, hemiplegia, dysarthria, aphasia
- complicationscomplication, bleeding, paralysis, infections, hemorrhage
- gait problemslimp, limping, hobble, hobbling, shuffle
- movement disorderstremor, dystonia, chorea, tremors, bradykinesia