[Pain and arteriopathies of the lower limbs]

Painful extremities are not necessarily a manifestation of disturbed circulation. Pain due to circulatory disorder has characteristic features with clinical evidence of its cause. But there is a tendency to ascribe to circulatory disturbances any pain that cannot easily be ascribed to some other cause. Most pain have specific causes arterial venous, lymphatic or neuropathic. The treatment of the arterial occlusion is most often the first therapeutic time. The treatment of the pain is one important part, avoiding necessarily anxiety. The oral morphinic medications are the first choice at this time.