Gastrocnemius spasm, or “calf cramp”. It is the most common type of painful spasm, characterized by a sudden onset of tonic painful spasm of the gastrocnemius muscle, pulling, painful as twisting, lasting tens of seconds to several minutes or more, the pain is difficult to name.
Differential diagnosis of gastrocnemius muscle spasm: 1. Calf muscle spasm after walking: after walking, calf spasm is also a frequent condition. Mostly due to walking or running for too long, the lower limb muscles are overworked.
2, calf soreness: calf soreness is a variety of causes of calf muscle soreness, is a symptom of a variety of diseases, generally caused by long-term strain of the calf tendons, calcium deficiency, chronic diseases, etc., Chinese medicine is believed to be related to qi deficiency.
3, calf peroneal muscle pain and pressure pain: calf peroneal muscle pain and pressure pain are characteristic manifestations of venous thrombosis, which is an acute non-suppurative inflammation of the veins with secondary intravascular thrombosis. The lesion mainly involves the superficial veins of the extremities or the deep veins of the lower extremities. It is characterized by localized swelling and pain in the affected limb, painful subcutaneous striae or obstruction of venous return such as varicose veins distal to the lesion. Occasionally, pulmonary embolism can be caused by thrombus dislodgement.
4, gastrocnemius spasmodic pain: gastrocnemius spasmodic pain refers to one or both calves due to cold, or sudden changes in posture, etc., caused by the gastrocnemius muscle spasm, local pain, can not move.
Symptom: Turning tendon, that is, refers to the calf belly tendon pulling and detaining, pain like twisting, is a common symptom, men, women and children are common, often occurs at night when sleeping, all four times, clinical to one or both sides of the calf belly sudden jerking severe pain as a characteristic. Lighter cases for a few minutes, heavy cases for more than half an hour, massage can only be relieved.