Leg cramps

Introduction Cramping refers to the sudden and violent contraction of muscles, which causes severe muscle pain. Leg and leg cramps are severe pain in the leg and foot muscles. Most of the leg cramps are caused by calcium deficiency, cold, and local nerve pressure. Prevention of leg and leg cramps can usually make appropriate amount of calcium, more sun, pay attention to local warmth, but also pay attention to changes in posture, such as sitting posture, avoiding nerve pressure, you can also do local muscle heat, massage, strengthen local Blood circulation, if not improved, you should go to the hospital for treatment.

Cause

Causes of leg and leg cramps: Poor sleep posture, such as prone for a long time, so that the quilt is pressed against the foot, or prone for a long time, so that the foot surface is on the bed, forcing some muscles of the calf to be absolutely relaxed for a long time, causing the muscle to "passively collapse." ".

Fatigue, sleep, lack of rest, or excessive rest can lead to accumulation of local acidic metabolites, which can cause muscle spasms. If you walk or exercise for too long, so that the lower limbs are over-tired or lack of rest and sleep, lactic acid can accumulate; sleep rest is too long, blood circulation slows down, and carbon dioxide accumulates.

Cold stimuli in the external environment, such as low room temperature in winter nights, when the quilt is too thin or the legs and feet are exposed to the outside.

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Diagnosis of leg and leg cramps: The muscles of the legs and feet are strong and straight, twitching, showing a horned arch (the head is reclining, the whole body is bowed backwards), and the eyes are turned up or gazing, and the mind is unclear.

Differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of leg and leg cramps:

1) There is a heartbeat with a heartbeat: when the heart beats the patient self-test pulse, if the heartbeat is irregular, there is a stop, then the heart may be related to the arrhythmia.

2) Cardiac with neurosis: more common in patients with cardiac neurosis, patients are more common in young women. In addition to heart palpitations, patients often have rapid heartbeat, chest tightness, tingling or dull pain in the precordial area, and poor breathing. And often accompanied by headache, dizziness, insomnia, fatigue, inattention and other symptoms of neurosis. The onset is often associated with mental factors, each with an emotional excitement.

3) Heart palpitations with hypertension: If you have a history of hypertension, palpitations, dizziness, headache, high blood pressure, you should consider palpitations caused by hypertensive heart disease. If there is no history of hypertension, paroxysmal blood pressure is elevated, and palpitations are associated with pheochromocytoma.

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