There could be blocked arteries in your legs, called peripheral artery disease that may be causing your leg
pain. “If you can walk through the
pain and it gets better as you go, it’s rheumatoid arthritis,” says Michael R. Jaff, an osteopathic physician and medical director of the vascular diagnostic laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. “With PAD, the more you walk, the worse the pain gets,” he says.