Muscle Aches and Cramps

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You might experience back soreness after a long day playing with the kids, have aching shoulders after overdoing it in the swimming pool, or feel calf pains during the night. Occasional muscle aches and cramps often just accompany the rigors of life. They are rarely a cause to worry.

Muscle aches can affect an active child, as well as a sedentary child who sits in front of the television playing video games and watching programs. The pain often occurs when muscles are overused and pulled or strained, particularly after a vigorous workout that didn't follow a warm-up or stretching session. The pain can range from mild to severe and usually dissipates after a few restful days. Lingering or recurrent pain, especially when accompanied by a fever, decreased muscular strength, or joint swelling, could suggest a severe strain, possibly injury.

The feeling of a muscle turning into a knot indicates a muscle cramp. Muscle cramps could afflict any child, regardless of fitness or diet. Heat cramps, which are common to the calves, the thighs, and the abdomen, can strike a person who exercises in hot weather or a hot gymnasium and who needs water. Night cramps often knot up the muscles of the calves, the feet, and the thighs, causing sharp pains and tightened muscles, which commonly awaken people from a sound sleep.

Nutritional deficiencies of calcium, magnesium, potassium, and the B vitamins are often the root cause of muscle aches and cramps. Lack of sleep can also contribute to this problem.

TREATMENT

Diet

Recommended Food

Eat foods that are high in calcium: kelp, cheese, collards, kale, turnip greens, almonds, yogurt, milk, broccoli, and calcium-enriched rice and soymilk.

Also eat foods that are high in magnesium: whole grains, nuts, legumes, soy, and green leafy vegetables.

Foods that are high in potassium are beneficial as well: fruits and vegetables, specially apples, bananas, carrots, oranges, potatoes, tomatoes, cantaloupes, peaches, plums, strawberries, meat, and fish.

Electrolyte drinks can help you quickly restore lost minerals. We recommend these drinks only on a short-term basis, though. Many contain artificial colorings and large amounts of sugar, although more healthful alternatives are available.

Drinking water on hot days or after physical activity is important.

** All of these prescriptions below have been proven effective; level of effectiveness depends on the individual. Please consult your doctor when taking any and all supplements.

Foods to Avoid

Avoid products that lead to the loss of minerals, such as soda pop, candy, and refined breads and pastas.

General Recommendations

• B vitamins can become depleted, due to the effect of stress, thus causing muscle cramps and aches. Take a 50 mg complex twice daily.
• Protease enzymes reduce muscle aching and inflammation. Take 1 capsule three times daily between meals.
• Black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa) reduces spasms of the muscles. Take 40 mg of a 2.5 percent triterpene glycoside extract twice daily.
• Arnica (Arnica Montana) oil relieves muscle pain and tenderness. Apply the oil to painful areas twice daily.
• Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) is helpful for spasms in the legs due to poor circulation. Take 300 mg twice daily.

Bruce Brightman – founder

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