Leg Twitching, Causes, Prevention and Treatment of Leg Twitching

Leg twitching is what we often call leg cramps. Leg muscle twitching usually occurs in two situations: one is during exercise, due to insufficient preparation for exercise, and the other is when sleeping, leg muscle cramps suddenly occur. What causes leg twitching, and what are the good treatments?

1: Cold stimulation. For example, exercising in a cold environment in winter and not doing enough warm-up activities, or swimming in low water temperature in summer, can easily cause leg cramps. If you don't cover yourself with a blanket at night, the calf muscles will be stimulated by the cold and will cramp, causing pain to wake you up.

2: Continuous muscle contraction too quickly. During strenuous exercise, the whole body is in a state of tension, the leg muscles contract too quickly, and the relaxation time is too short. The local metabolic product lactic acid increases, and the muscle contraction and relaxation are difficult to coordinate, thus causing calf muscle spasms.

3: Excessive sweating. Long exercise time, large amount of exercise, excessive sweating, and failure to replenish salt in time will cause a large amount of fluid and electrolyte loss in the body, accumulation of metabolic waste, poor blood circulation in the local muscles, and easy occurrence of cramps.

4: Excessive fatigue. When traveling long distances, climbing mountains, or climbing high places, the calf muscles are most likely to become fatigued. Because every time you climb a mountain, one foot supports the weight of the whole body. The force required for the muscles of this leg to lift the foot will be six times the weight of the human body. When it is fatigued to a certain extent, cramps will occur.

5: Calcium deficiency. Calcium ions play an important role in muscle contraction. When the concentration of calcium ions in the blood is too low, muscles are easily excited and spasm. Teenagers grow and develop rapidly and are prone to calcium deficiency, so leg cramps often occur.

1: Avoid excessive consumption of spicy foods, such as onions, garlic, chili peppers, etc.

2: Patients with varicose veins can wear elastic socks or elastic bandages during treatment to protect the superficial venous congestion, but be careful not to wear them too tight to avoid breaking the skin and forming ulcers.

3: Try to avoid standing or walking for long periods of time. For those who often work in a sitting or squatting position, intermittently perform knee extension and leg kicking exercises or ankle flexion and extension exercises to reduce the pressure on the superficial veins.

The causes and care methods of leg cramps. People who suffer from leg cramps during sleep should supplement minerals. At the same time, they should also be alert to diseases such as varicose veins.