A cramp is an extremely painful
muscle contraction affects the upper or lower leg. Dehydration, nutritional
deficiencies and certain medications can cause cramps. However, if you
experience knee pain much like the feeling of cramp in your calf, you may be
suffering from other disease severe. Talk to your doctor for a diagnosis and
appropriate treatment.
Muscle tension is one of the
major causes of a cramp. In terms of the calf, may be at a voltage of one of
two muscles: the gastrocnemius muscle and the soleus muscle. The gastrocnemius
muscle is the muscle that you can see in the back of the calf. The soleus
muscle is below this and thus not visible. If any of the two muscles are
stressed, may result in spasm. Also, both the soleus and the gastrocnemius
muscle largest connected with the knee joint. Therefore, the tension in one or
both muscles can produce knee pain.
The overuse of a muscle can cause
cramps. Overuse is also a common cause of knee pain. Reduce the amount of
exercise you do can help relieve pain and prevent injury intensify, which may
reduce the feeling of an impending cramp. Relax with inward exercises and
outward heating and cooling may be beneficial. Do more swimming and cycling
stressful activities like running, can help. Please ask your doctor for more
advice on dealing with overuse injuries. You can suggest remedies such as
losing weight, using shoe inserts or modify your exercises.
An inadequate blood supply caused
by reduced blood flow to the calves is another possible cause of muscle cramps.
The cramps usually occur during exercise when blood circulation is required
further. These types of cramps should go away stop exercise. A common reason
for having blood circulation problems can also cause leg or knee pain is a
disease, peripheral vascular disease. A disease peripheral vascular circulatory
disorder is a progressive, as the disease Buerger, chronic venous insufficiency
and thrombophlebitis. Cramps in the calf is one of the first symptom often
experienced by people with such disorders.
Excessive tension in the calf or
thigh muscles is a suspected cause of shin splints. If your muscles are tense,
you feel as if your calves were about to cramp. When strained calf or tendons
of muscles, also may increase the risk of runner's knee, or pain in the front
of your knee. Runner's knee is a broad term that can be related to several
causes. If your cause is the tight calf muscle, calf stretching can reduce
stress to relieve knee pain and knots in your muscles. Have a fitness expert
shows you stretches calves.
