How to Treat Muscle Cramps for Athlete
Muscle cramps are common especially in hot weather and athletes too have gotten themselves a little bit dehydrated and one of the things that we wanted to make sure when they are having muscle cramp is that we stretch that area really, really well. The other thing we want to make sure is the calves are the common place of cramp. The other thing we want to make sure of this is we pour lots and lots of fluid back into that athlete. The likelihood is if we do not get them rehydrated quickly enough and try and put them back in the game they are going to continue to cramp .Once they have started cramping, probably they are going to switch from water to an electrolyte drink and I work on them with a partner and doing stretching on the field especially, we really want to try and get that stretched out as soon as we can. The area is going to be fairly painful. Some coaches like to go out there and try to massage the area that has cramped of many times, the athlete is so tender and sore with that muscle, that does not work. Probably the best way to avoid cramps is to get lots of fluid into the body long before exercise begins. They need to start getting fluid in that system 24-hour in advance and keep pouring that fluid into their system throughout and keep doing it during the game as well.
