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.
The obvious causes of leg pain are injuries, perhaps sustained during a sports game, or due to an accident - damage that doctors call trauma. Since the causes of trauma pain are obvious, and the treatment is applied accordingly, this article deals with leg pain that is not associated with traumatic injury.