Ouch! A griping leg pain has stopped you in your tracks or awakened you from a sound sleep. Muscle cramps. What causes muscles, usually leg muscles, to suddenly lockup, become hard as a rock and produce indescribable pain? The answer is not clear and the cause of muscle cramps is still not known, but there ...
A muscle cramp or spasm is a muscle that has been constricted but the constriction doesn’t let up. You get them from exercising too hard or too fast, not warming up before exercising, or pulling a muscle trying to reach or pull too hard a number of times. Muscle spasms or cramps could also be ...
I don’t know why I’m writing about charley horses – since it seems as though all of my health-related articles are written these days because of some recent injury I’ve suffered. Knock on wood; I haven’t suffered a charley horse in at least three or four years – although I did suffer one gruesome hamstring ...
A nocturnal leg cramp is a muscle cramp that can either occur late at night or while sleeping. If they are persistent and reoccurring it can be a diagnosable disorder. The cramping region can include muscles in the thigh, calve, or the feet. They can range from short-time mild cramps to extended-time severe muscle cramps. ...