What's wrong with my left arm twitching

If you often feel twitching in your arms, you may consider it as a manifestation of cramps. Arm cramps may be caused by muscle spasms. For example, many people experience twitching and cramping in their arms during swimming because of the stimulation of cold water or failure to warm up their arms. Special conditioning is needed in normal times.

What are the causes and treatments for arm cramps?

Causes of arm cramps

1 Cold stimulation The occurrence of muscle spasms is related to cold stimulation. If you exercise in a cold environment without doing warm-up exercises or the warm-up exercises are insufficient, your muscles will be stimulated by the cold and muscle cramps may occur. Especially when swimming, encountering low water temperature and exercising outdoors in winter when the arms are stimulated by cold air can cause muscle cramps. Nutritional deficiencies such as calcium and magnesium deficiency are the most common causes of limb cramps. When the blood calcium level is too low, muscle irritability increases and cramps often occur; when the serum magnesium level is too low, it will cause increased muscle irritability when exposed to cold, and excitement will also cause cramps. Excessive arm exercise when performing repeated high-intensity exercises, such as playing tennis, basketball, lifting heavy objects, etc., due to the rapid and continuous contraction of the muscles and the short relaxation time, it can also cause arm muscle spasms and arm cramps.

Emergency treatment for cramps

2 The methods for dealing with cramps are similar. If left untreated, cramps may last for 1-15 minutes, or they may recur in a short period of time. When treating cramps, be sure not to pull hard to avoid straining muscle fibers. The correct emergency treatment methods are as follows:

1. Massage the cramp area.

2. Carefully stretch and lengthen the muscles where the cramps occur, keeping them in a stretched state.

3. Apply hot compress with a towel to the cramp area. It can gradually relieve cramps. Emergency treatment method for finger cramps 3: When you have finger cramps, make a fist with the cramped hand and then open it forcefully. Repeat this process several times and the cramp will be relieved.

Ways to prevent arm cramps

4 Before engaging in high-intensity exercise, do careful warm-up exercises to improve your body's cold resistance and endurance, and do not engage in high-intensity exercise when you are overly tired, hungry, or insomniac. Adding more salt and glucose to your diet can quickly synthesize organic compounds that prevent muscle tremors and contractions from forming, and can also eliminate arm cramps that occur during exercise.