Vitamin E has apparently been proven to have substantial benefits for a high percentage of people with night cramps. I experienced night cramping in lower legs and feet for a couple of years. Severity ranged from mild (none to one per night) to severe (> 10 per night requiring me to get out of bed for relief). I found an internet post that mentioned Vitamin E after going through a full week of severe night cramps. I started that day with two 400 I.U. vitamins per day and experienced an immediate reduction in cramping frequency and intensity. It has now been two months since I started vitamin E. I am sleeping peacefully through the night cramp free!! I can even stretch in bed when waking up and in the past that would have triggered immediate cramping. I reduced dosage to one Vitamin E tablet per day two days ago with no recurrence of cramping so far. I am a 51 year old Caucasian man in reasonably good physical condition (exercise moderately 2 - 3 times per week) that takes 10 mg of Simvastatin per day for moderately elevated chloresterol. I had previously tried stretching legs / feet before bed (which helped some) staying well hydrated with water and / or Gatorade (helped some if I had been particularly active and was dehydrated), and salt (no apparent relief). The night cramps I had been experiencing were different than exercise induced cramping from excessive sports when I was younger (those were thigh / calf typically and were more likely during the activity, but occasionally occurred at night). My night cramps were anywhere from calf, to front of shin area, to top of foot, toes, etc. For me, Vitamin E has had a huge beneficial impact. I don't know how it helps, but it has immensely. Since beginning taking Vitamin E, I have averaged less than one night cramp a week that requires me to get out of bed. Before the treatment, that average would have been closer to 15 per week, .... and it had been > 40 the week before I started.
Cramping during sleep is usually due to an exaggeration of a normal muscle reflex. When you turn during sleep, you contract your calf muscles and stretch their tendons. This stimulates nerve stretch receptors in the tendon and sends a message back to the spinal cord, telling the calf muscles to contract. Sometimes, the muscles remain contracted and hurt. Painful muscle cramps at night can also be caused by nerve damage such as that caused by pinching a nerve, muscle damage, a partially-obstructed flow of blood to the legs and abnormal mineral or hormone levels, so if you have this problem, check with your doctor. If you do not have a serious cause, you can often prevent night cramps by exhausting the stretch reflex before you go to bed by stretching your calf muscles with wall pushups, and applying a heating pad for 10 minutes before you go to sleep.
Solution: Home Remedy
Many people suffering from nocturnal leg cramps or RLS report that their symptoms improve when a bar of plain soap is placed underneath the sheets. Another good remedy is to take a magnesium and potassium supplement. It is not immediate, but your symptom should decrease after a few days.
Elevation is the best way. Lift your feet onto a high surface. Circuatling the blood also helps. Grab your leg basicly going up and down while pressing. If you are awake even taking a warm bath help. Even better you should buy muscle relaxer in your bath and it's even better. Hope this helps.
u should take a warm bath so that all of your muscles loosen up or just rest.
The normal reason is if you are doing to much work on your muscles but it also may be that you are stressed or have low calcium levals in your blood.
waht can cause my left arm to cramp and numbness in my left fingertips
Earthworms do not have legs.
A ballet split can be two different things. There's the right/left leg splits, which is where one has one leg in front of them, the other behind them, and is sitting on the floor with their legs at a 180 degree angle. (try looking up 'the splits' to really get it.) The second one is the middle or 'Chinese' splits. In this, the dancer has their legs extend from their body much in the way that you hold your arms at right angles to your body. Dancers will often stretch with their bottoms on the floor and their their legs parallel to a wall and try to get the entire lengths of the legs up against the wall to stretch. I hope this helps!
Betty Grable starred in nearly 100 films throughout her acting career. She was also a dancer, who appeared in a famous swimsuit pin-up and was considered to have the most beautiful legs in the film industry. The studio publicized films with her in them by sending out press shots that featured her legs prominently. So, she was really famous for both.
It can be a contributing factor. as can be osteoporosis.
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When a muscle cramp occurs, the muscle contracts forcibly and involuntarily and doesn't relax for the time the cramp lasts. The cramp can last from few seconds up to few minutes.
When you experience a leg or muscle cramp, it is because the muscle has constricted or tightened up. The lump you are referring to is the muscle itself that has tightened up. When your muscle relaxes, the cramp goes away.
it can be because of not getting up and moving for a long time so Its Kinda like a cramp
He was sitting too long and needed to get the circulation back into his legs, pins and needles or cramp etc.
I recommend massage.
A leg cramp is caused by a build up of lactic acid in your muscles, so the type of fermentation responsible for a leg cramp is lactic acid fermentation.
Stop doing whatever activity triggered the cramp, Gently stretch and massage the cramping muscle, holding it in stretched position until the cramp stops, and Apply heat to tense/tight muscles, or cold to sore/tender muscles.
because theyre not done growing
The Portuguese word "cãibra"," in English is "cramp.