What causes cramps?

Cramps often occur in our bodies, but they can directly affect our safety and health. What exactly causes cramps? In medicine, the scientific name for cramps is muscle spasm, which is a spontaneous tonic contraction of muscles. After suffering from cramps, it is necessary to diagnose and treat them as soon as possible.

What causes cramps? In fact, it is closely related to external factors. For example, if the outside climate is very cold, it can also cause cramps in our bodies. It is like when the room temperature is very low at night in winter, and when we sleep, the quilt we cover is too thin or our legs and feet are exposed outside the quilt.

Fatigue, lack of sleep, rest or excessive rest can lead to accumulation of local acidic metabolic products and cause muscle cramps. Walking or exercising for too long, which causes excessive fatigue in the lower limbs, or lack of rest and sleep, can cause lactic acid accumulation. Sleeping and resting too much or too long can slow down blood circulation and cause carbon dioxide accumulation.

Bad sleeping posture, such as lying on your back for a long time with the quilt pressing on the soles of your feet, or lying on your stomach for a long time with the soles of your feet against the bed, forces certain calf muscles to be in an absolutely relaxed state for a long time, causing "passive contracture" of the muscles.

After all, there are many reasons for cramps, but we must clearly understand the symptoms of cramps and conduct reasonable examinations and treatments for cramps to ensure that after we discover cramps in the body, we can cure this disease as soon as possible. We must be aware of this.