What exactly is a "Charlie Horse"?!
Question: How do you get them and how do you get rid of them?
And can you get them multiple times in a day?
Answers: How do you get them and how do you get rid of them?
And can you get them multiple times in a day?
A Charlie horse is just a cramp in your leg. If you are getting them multiple times a day, you need to get more potassium in your diet. Try eating a banana everyday.
Cramps in your legs. You can try eating bananas for potassium or drink elecrolyte drinks like Gatorade.
when someone punches your arm and gives you a bruise
leg cramps.
Technically, they are caused by a buildup of Lactic Acid in the muscle tissue and that is the same thing that causes Rigor in a corpse.
The term Charlie Horse comes from horse racing. Back in the 1800's a well known trainer at the time had a horse that did very poorly on the track because it was lame... someone called it "Charlie's Horse" and the name stuck and has come to mean anyone that has a still leg due to leg cramps.