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Gogirlgo
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 Posted: 08/10/05 - 22:01 Post subject: two questions
1. What is the remedy for when you get a charley horse?
2. Would you like to know the derivation for the term "charley horse?" It's disputed but here's what I've found: First used in the 1880s among baseball players, the term was soon extended to more general use. Among the more likely theories proposed is that it alludes to the name of either a horse or an afflicted ball player who limped like one of the elderly draft horses formerly employed to drag the infield.
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airehead
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Posted: 08/10/05 - 22:09 Post subject:
1. Beyotch and moan and limp around. Rubbing it sometimes makes it worse. Sometimes I use "the stick" on it.
2. That is cool!!!
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kristin31
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Posted: 08/10/05 - 22:10 Post subject: Re: two questions
| Gogirlgo wrote: | 1. What is the remedy for when you get a charley horse?
2. Would you like to know the derivation for the term "charley horse?" It's disputed but here's what I've found: First used in the 1880s among baseball players, the term was soon extended to more general use. thingie is noAmong the more likely theories proposed is that it alludes to the name of either a horse or an afflicted ball player who limped like one of the elderly draft horses formerly employed to drag the infield. |
1)Massage - one of the little wooden ball thingies with oil works fine...
I don't know the anwer to #2, sorry.
Do you know how to fix a right side ankle/calf muscle cramp from snorkeling? The little wooden masage is not working...
More severe muscle cramps may indicate a lack of potasium and salts from dehydration. Orange, bananas, and salt may help ( a great excuse to eat a big fat alt pretzel, in my book).
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 08/10/05 - 22:13 Post subject: Re: two questions
| Gogirlgo wrote: | | 1. What is the remedy for when you get a charley horse? |
I flex my foot and massage my calf until it goes away.
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Posted: 08/11/05 - 06:09 Post subject:
I have no clue but I know flopping around the bed at 2am moaning and groaning and saying "Babe rub my leg, rub my leg"........never ever helps.  I rarely get them but DH does all the time. At 2am even. 
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robp
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Posted: 08/11/05 - 06:57 Post subject:
My remedy was to spring up out of my chair and hop around Rolling Rock's kitchen on one foot b!tching about the cramp in my leg.
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Posted: 08/11/05 - 07:50 Post subject:
1) No charlie horse problems. I eat bananas every day.
2) No.
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MastrBrewr
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Posted: 08/11/05 - 08:10 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | I have no clue but I know flopping around the bed at 2am moaning and groaning and saying "Babe rub my leg, rub my leg"........never ever helps. I rarely get them but DH does all the time. At 2am even. |
Wrong "leg". 
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andydp
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Posted: 08/11/05 - 08:15 Post subject:
Can't help on the etomology of the term but...
To keep charlie horses from appearing I usually drink up a liter of "Tonic Water" after my running/exercise sessions. The quinine in the tonic water helps to avoid/minimize any cramps.
Tonic water is available in diet or regular and I have seen regular tonic with lime flavors.
If I get one I find I have to contort myself into unusual positions so the muscle can relax. Massage and rubbing do nothing for me.
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TOsteve
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Posted: 08/11/05 - 08:22 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | My remedy was to spring up out of my chair and hop around Rolling Rock's kitchen on one foot b!tching about the cramp in my leg. |
This is my usual technique, although I've never been in RR's kitchen.
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Posted: 08/11/05 - 08:23 Post subject:
I've never had one before.
I guess I'm lucky.
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 08/11/05 - 08:48 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: | I've never had one before.
I guess I'm lucky. |
Never??? NEVER???
Indeed you are.
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Posted: 08/11/05 - 09:02 Post subject:
I used to get them when I took ballet. I'd wake up in the middle of the night and my calf would be in a ball. I try to go against it, in this case, pull my foot up. But prevention is better and eating potassium and sodium prevents it pretty well I think.
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Posted: 08/11/05 - 09:05 Post subject:
Oh, I just remembered this. When I was a kid my Mom used to get cramps in her leg. She would go to the freezer and get a 1lb. block of butter out and stand on it.  No kidding!
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cdnhollywood
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