What to do with sudden cramps in climbing?

“How do I get a cramp on my mountain climbing?” Everyone encountered cramping more or less during exercise. There are many incentives to cause cramps. In addition to well-known cold and calcium deficiency, muscle cramps caused by excessive exercise such as playing, climbing, and swimming are the most common.

In mountaineering, if excessive muscle strength leads to muscle cramps, if no first-aid measures are taken in time, it is easy to cause secondary recurrence and form habitual exercise cramps. Bone and joint sports medicine experts introduced several methods of first aid for cramps:

1. After discovering muscle cramps, immediately stop any activity or exercise currently done.

Because the true mechanism that causes cramps is not yet known, most studies believe that muscle cramps are due to reduced neural or neuromuscular stress thresholds, resulting in a sudden increase in the frequency of the nerves acting on the muscles, causing muscle tonic contraction. Therefore, once cramping in mountaineering, you should immediately sit on the ground and keep still.

2. According to different parts of the body at the ankle, take a different method of muscle stretch emergency until the phlegm and pain gradually disappear.

When the leg cramps, do not bend the knee, to straighten the leg of the cramp, with the thumb to explore the hard and protruding muscles between the two sides, where strong pressure to calm the dominant nervous;

If the front thigh cramps, you can squat, or put your wrist behind your knees, bend your legs back and straighten the muscles in front of your thighs;

If the arm cramps, you must gently straighten the arm and apply pressure to the pain point.

When the abdomen cramps, immediately supine, gently raise the abdomen, so that the lumbar spine is in a pre-drive state, straighten the abdominal muscles.

3. If the stunned muscles are gently massaged after first aid, they still feel muscle soreness and tightness and need to apply cold compress.

Tips: For cramps in different parts of the mountaineering process, you must stop activities in time and take the correct method to ease the pain caused by cramps.