Why are the calves not the same thickness?

When walking and sitting, you must pay attention to your walking posture and sitting posture, because these two aspects have an important impact on the shape of your legs. When summer comes and people need to expose their calves, some shortcomings of their calves will be directly revealed. Some people find that the thickness of their calves is obviously different when wearing shorts, which looks extremely uncoordinated. So what are the reasons for the different thickness of the calves?

Why are legs different in thickness?

The reason for the difference in leg thickness is due to incorrect walking posture or illness, or it may be caused by congenital reasons.

1. Physiological unequal thickness of lower limbs due to different walking steps or congenital reasons.

2. Pathological unequal thickness of lower limbs due to diseases such as old femoral neck bone, nonunion of femoral neck fracture, flat hip, hip osteoarthritis combined with subluxation, etc.

3. Maintaining the cross-legged posture for a long time will cause deformation of the musculoskeletal system. The shorter side will bear a greater load, which will be accompanied by pain in the upper body or pelvis.

4. Normally, the forces applied to the two legs are different, so if there is too much pressure, it will cause the muscles in your local legs to be overdeveloped, which will easily cause the thickness of the legs on both sides to be different.

What to do if the legs are different in thickness

1. Asymmetrical squat

This squat exercise is very helpful for balance and improving the uneven thickness of the hips and legs. Make the leg that is used to exert force higher than the other leg. For example, you can put the leg that is often exert force on a box, barbell plate or pedal. Squat in this position, the other key points are the same as the bodyweight squat.

2. Bulgarian Split Squat

With your back to the chair, stand in front of it, extend the leg that you are used to exerting force on backwards and upwards, and place it on the chair. If this is uncomfortable, you can also place a pillow on the chair and rest your feet on it. Then squat down with control, keeping your spine upright at all times, and when you stand up, pay attention to the leg that is close to the ground.

3. Single-leg upside down

Lie on the bed, lift the leg that you don't often use force and keep it at 90 degrees perpendicular to the bottom. Follow your breathing to inhale and straighten your ankle. Hold for 5 seconds, then bend your ankle so that the sole of your foot and calf are perpendicular, and hold for another 5 seconds. Repeat each set of movements 20 times. This not only facilitates blood circulation in the legs, but also stretches the leg muscles when moving the ankles, enhances the body's metabolism, and solves the problem of uneven calf thickness.

4. Massage

Massage your thicker leg, or wrap the thicker side with plastic wrap while running and then jog. You will generally see obvious results in about half a month. Also pay attention to doing balancing exercises for both legs before going to bed at night.

5. Surgical filling

One is correction with autologous fat, and the other is correction with hyaluronic acid filling. The principles of these two correction methods are the same, both of which use fillers to fill the legs to make the originally thin or concave parts of the legs become round and strong, and by controlling the amount of fillers and adjusting the filling parts, the appearance of the legs becomes coordinated.