Today's true sports drinks are still the classic Gatorade -- packed with the electrolytes potassium, magnesium, calcium, and sodium to provide energy during intense workouts -- as well as competitors such as Cytomax, Allsport, and Accelerade.
Certain medications can also cause Charley horse as a result of their side effects. Drugs such as statins or medicines prescribed for lowering cholesterol, blood pressure, diuretics, asthma medicines like terbutaline and salbutamol, morphine and lithium can trigger muscle spasms.
Cause me to have the beginning of a charley horse in the ... Cause me to have the beginning of a charley horse in the back of my left thigh! ...Especially with the leg and lower back pain. ...Pain in lower back and legs would just not let be fall asleep!.