In most Spanish speaking countries, this is just a slang term for âinsect.â In Puerto Rico, on the other hand, it means âdick.â You can imagine the giggles that follow someone saying âme pican los bichosâ (The bugs/dicks are biting me) in Puerto Rico.
1 Arthritis affecting leg joints can cause stabbing leg pain which is chronic in nature. 2  It is accompanied by inflammation and stiffness of the joint. 3  Baker's Cyst. 4  In this condition, the knee joint fluid gets accumulated at the back of the knee and pain can be felt at the back side of the leg.
But as Dow's case shows, it can happen throughout the body. When it does, it's called peripheral arterial disease, or PAD. And in some people, PAD causes leg pain that acts as an 'early warning' that someone is at high risk for a heart attack or a stroke, says a University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center expert. Leg pain could be a sign of possible peripheral arterial disease.