What are the causes and solutions for leg cramps?

Many friends will experience leg cramps during normal exercise. This phenomenon is often very painful, and the patients cannot be relieved in a short period of time. Many friends do not know why they have such a phenomenon, nor do they know how to solve it, so the impact is very large. So, what are the causes and solutions for leg cramps?

1. Muscle stiffness: If you are walking on the road and encounter a motorcycle thief who snatches your bag, your reaction will definitely be to chase him quickly. This sudden and violent movement without any warning can cause great damage to the muscles. When the motorcycle thief drives away and you give up chasing him, your muscles suddenly relax, which makes it easy for you to have muscle spasms.

2 Calcium deficiency: Calcium can reduce muscle nerve activity. If the body lacks calcium, the muscle nerves will be overexcited, which can easily cause cramps.

3. Being exposed to cold after exercise: Muscles become relaxed after exercise. If exposed to cold, the nervous system will stimulate the muscles to generate heat through rapid muscle contraction, making the muscles prone to spasms.

4. Wrong posture after exercise: Body posture can also cause muscle cramps. For example, curling up your legs after exercise can easily cause cramps, and the same is true when curling up your body when sleeping.

1. You should take action as soon as possible after a leg cramp occurs, otherwise it will cause further damage to the muscles, and the severe pain associated with the cramp will also make you unbearable. The emergency measures for leg cramps are relatively simple, divided into emergency measures with the assistance of others and self-help emergency measures for one person:

2 Alone: ​​When cramps occur, you are the only one present. At this time, you should quickly contract your feet, bend your toes toward the center of the foot, make the sole of the foot into an arc shape, and then use your hands to help straighten your legs. If you are sitting, you can press down on your knees with your hands to straighten them. Just hold on for 5 seconds. After the pain disappears, continue to press your knee, then slowly relax your thigh. If you feel pain again, straighten your leg again.

3 Assisting others: When someone has a leg cramp and doesn’t know what to do, you should quickly guide him to straighten his legs, lift his feet and lean them towards his head, as shown in the picture. Hold for a few seconds to contact the pain.

In daily life, we must pay more attention to the above situations. If we don’t, the harm will be very great. Pay special attention to the reasons mentioned above when exercising. When cramps occur, friends can massage their legs first, which will effectively relieve the pain caused by cramps.