How to deal with lumbar cramps?

It is common to have cramps in the waist muscles, especially during exercise. If you are not well prepared or you exercise for too long and your body becomes tired, your waist muscles will easily cramp. There are two ways to treat waist cramps: acute and permanent.

1: Treatment in the acute phase: that is, when cramps occur, the patient needs to rest immediately, gently massage the cramped area, and gently stretch the muscles at the cramped area, because when you stretch the muscle, the tension of the tendon will increase. When the tension reaches a certain intensity, the nerves will transmit impulses to the brain. In order to avoid tendon injury, the brain will release information to relax the cramped muscle. When stretching the muscle, do not use too much force to avoid pulling the muscle and causing secondary injury.

2: Short-term muscle cramps can be treated and you can return to the competition, but the possibility of recurrence is still high. If the muscle cramp lasts for a long time, you can use external waist pain relief patch for Chinese medicine treatment. If cramps occur again easily, you need to consider whether the muscles are overly fatigued or dehydrated. In the former case, you must stop the activity and rest, and in the latter, you need to replenish water and electrolytes.

3: Treatment to cure the root cause: People who have lumbar muscle cramps must first understand some of their "history", such as their eating habits, the stress caused by their daily exercise (work), the location of cramps, the weather conditions when lumbar muscle cramps occur, etc. The causes of lumbar muscle cramps in wrestling, freestyle cycling, or fencing athletes may be completely different, so the type of sports they have engaged in is also an item that needs to be understood to find out the cause of lumbar muscle cramps. After combining all the understanding, find out the cause of lumbar muscle cramps, and take preventive measures to improve the cause, so as to solve the problem of cramps.

4: If you frequently have lumbar muscle cramps and cannot find the cause, you must be careful and consult a doctor for a thorough examination, because lumbar muscle cramps may be a symptom of some vascular disease, diabetes or nervous system disease.

1: Take in enough minerals (such as calcium and magnesium) and electrolytes (such as potassium and sodium) in your daily diet. Minerals can be taken from foods such as milk, yogurt, and green leafy vegetables, and electrolytes can be obtained from bananas, oranges, celery, natural foods, or some low-sugar drinks.

2: Do adequate warm-up and stretching exercises before exercise. Proper warmth preservation is required after exercise in cold weather, such as changing out of swimsuit immediately after swimming and putting on warm clothes.

3: People who are prone to cramps at night need to do some stretching exercises before going to bed, especially stretching the parts that are prone to cramps.

If you have a certain understanding of the symptoms of waist cramps, then you should take timely care and adjust your lifestyle in your daily life to stay healthy!