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Age 77 years. Take 2mg Warfarin/day. 6 Cocodamols/day. 2 Celocoxib/day. Unable to run. Have been going to the gym for 2 years. Recently have been using the treadmill for 2 exercises for the legs: 1). Nil gradient, 8kph, try to complete 8 minutes 2). 15% gradient, 6.2 kph, try to do a minimum of 1.5 minutes. Recently holidays have interfered with the exercise training. Recently Nil gradient, 8kph, could just do 1.5 minutes. There was a pain along the underside of the left thigh muscle. Next visit much the same. Third visit decided to push through the pain, but there was a sudden very sharp pain, like a knife, ubder the thigh muscle. Was OK for a couple of days, but yesterday the thigh was swollen and tense underneath. Today the entire thigh is swollen and tense. Possibly below the knee there is swelling. Yesterday the Doctor prescrbed a heat rub. No discernable effect.