What gives the athlete action are the waves of chemical and electrical charges. These charges move along the neuron and when the nerve impulses, the electrical charges across the cell membrane reverses and charges high speeds. The environmental and behavioral factors which led to Joseph's dehydration event are: For one, FLORIDA. Forget it being August and still hot. It's January, 80 degrees during winter are you kidding me?! On a serious note, the hot and dry weather caused extreme heating in Joseph's body and the loss of water in his bloodstream via sweat, this in combination with strenuous physical work during his three hour game. His inability to rehydrate caused him to experience symptoms of heat illness: dehydration, muscle pain and cramping The opening of the potassium and sodium gate was caused by the brief bonding in the motor end plate. When these two are open in the same duration, End Plate potential is present. The adjoining muscle regions are stimulated to create action potential instead of actually creating the action potential. With the lack of sodium because of the sweating with no rehydration, the sodium gate didnt open right and thats where the imbalance occurs.The gates opened at different times and caused Joseph's cramping.
