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> > In article <1…@sunybcs.UUCP> colo…@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
> > >Nobody seems to have responded yet, or is my news feed down again? Anyway,
> > >Charley Horse … The only treatment I know of is to point your toes, which
> > >makes it hurt worse but only temporarily.
> > How odd, I recieved the opposite advice: I was told, as a child, to jump out
> > of bed and gently but firmly *put weight* on the foot/leg. This stretches
> > the cramped muscle (mine were always in the back of the leg, and still are),
> > the opposite of pointing the toes, which minimizes pulling on the cramp.
> well pointing the toes doesnt sound too good, it would tense up the muscle
> which is already in pain from being tensed. stretching out the muscle
> sounds a lot better. i think the theory is good, but i personally have
> found it incredibly painful. my method is to massage the muscle.
> when it relaxes i have to be careful not to tense it at all for a few minutes
> or it will start spasming again. this is when stretching it by (trying to)
> stand up helps me.
> i think the original quesition was not what to do once this occurs –
> everybody figures out SOMETHING to do pretty darn quick- but rather how
> to prevent it from recurring. nobody has really rebuted my statement that
> in most (?) people a mineral deficiency is to blame.
When I was younger, I was getting nocturnal leg cramps about once
a week (which I assume is fairly often) but only during the
summer months (much less frequently during the winter).
Curiously enough, the cramps disappeared after I joined my
high school track team. Since my diet hadn’t changed I assumed
(and still do) that this was due to the stretching exercises that
preceded my track workouts. The problem has never surfaced
again. This assumption is totally empirical based on a sample of 1.
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Lee Vallone AT&T Information Systems Merlin
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night craps in the legs are no stranger to me… the only thing i
have found that works well for me is to GET UP nad walk around
until the pain stops. if i’m not too tired i will stay up
and read or watch tv for an hour or two and then go back to bed.
if the pain was or is bad i pay my wife the honor of not going back
to our bed so that i can get into a different condition and not
wake her up all night with tossing and turning.
the origin of the problem was a sking accident i had in high school
that resulted in tendon and muscle damage to both knees. the usual
route for pain to occur is unusual stress on the knees and/or
extreme weather changes that cause pain in the knees anywhere
from a dull ache to (rarely) sharp shooting pains. this pain causes
the leg muscles to stiffen and i end up with cramps.
i reccomend two things for this.
1) sleep in a different place or position.
2) SCOTCH!
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