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What causes muscle cramps during competition?
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Dr. Gabe M.
Posted
Wed 01 Oct 2008 8:12pm
If you've ever developed severe muscle cramps during long-term exercise, the odds are that you never found out why it happened. Doctors in South Africa studied triathletes and found that most of the time, the muscles cramps were not caused by dehydration, thyroid disease, blocked blood flow, nerve damage, or mineral abnormalities of calcium, sodium
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Fighting Muscle Cramping
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Lucky V.
Posted
Mon 04 May 2009 3:54pm
to anyone working out on a regular basis.
Muscles cramps often occur during and after workout but there are several ways to control it. First, let’s have a better understanding of the reasons for this problem, and then, we can focus on preventing and treating muscle cramping.
Muscle cramps are a natural reaction of the human body normally caused by the lack
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Muscle Cramps!
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Dr. Eric R.
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Sun 14 Sep 2008 3:05pm
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muscle soreness, muscle fatigue, and muscle cramps.
Muscle cramps are often extremely painful and debilitating. I remember struggling with quadriceps cramps more than one time.... The cramps began at mile 42. I remember completing the rest of the ride in fear because a feature of muscle cramps poorly appreciated among non-cyclists is that when you do cramp
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Will Creatine Cause Muscle Cramps Or Injury?
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Richard S.
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Fri 22 Oct 2010 5:16pm
of creatine will usually and regrettably accept it to be fact.
If an athlete who happens to be using creatine gets a muscle cramp they will point the finger at their creatine use, when... players as subjects found that the athletes supplementing with creatine experienced less muscle cramps, muscle tightness, muscle strains, dehydration and total injuries. (Mayhew
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Muscle Cramps in Exercisers
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Dr. Gabe M.
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Sat 05 Feb 2011 7:16pm
Muscle cramps are common during very intense exercise and occur far less often during less-intense training, because the most common cause of muscle cramps in exercisers is muscle damage from all-out pressure on the muscles.
Cause: Muscle Damage
The leading theory is that most cases of muscle cramps in serious exercisers and athletes are caused
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Muscle Cramps from Exercise: Causes and Prevention
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Dr. Gabe M.
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Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:03pm
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Exercisers are often told that muscle cramps are caused by lack of salt (sodium) or low potassium. However, recent studies show that athletes in endurance events who... exercise-induced muscle cramps. The most common cause appears to be muscle damage. Athletes may be able to prevent cramps by slowing down when they feel the muscle pulling
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Preventing Muscle Cramps
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Dr. Gabe M.
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Fri 16 Oct 2009 10:00pm
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Most older textbooks explain that muscle cramps are caused by lack of water (dehydration) and lack of salt. However, studies on endurance athletes show that athletes who cramp do not have less body water or sodium than those who do not cramp ( British Journal of Sports Medicine, June 2009). So the current explanation for muscle cramps
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Most common cause of muscle cramps: lack of salt
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Dr. Gabe M.
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Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:03pm
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The most common cause of muscle cramps in exercisers is lack of salt, according to a report from the University of Oklahoma. The authors cite studies of tennis... of muscle cramps in competitive athletes are caused by an exaggerated "stretch reflex". When you stretch a muscle, it pulls on its tendon. Stretch reflex nerves in that tendon send
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