Leg cramps are painful and debilitating. They can stop you in your tracks during a busy day or wake you from a restful sleep. Perhaps you’ve already tried remedies like using heating pads, taking ...

Many of us have had this dreaded experience: you’re asleep or lying in bed, minding your own business, when all of a sudden you feel an excruciating, twisting, tightening, pain in one of your calves.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. To Readers • A recent discussion of nighttime leg cramps brought an avalanche of readers' remedies, as it always does. I can't ...

Q: You’ve written about soap chips or bars for muscle cramps. I discovered by accident that liquid hand soap works great for leg, toe and finger cramps. I couldn’t find the bar soap and I was in ...

Do your legs hurt so much that you frequently wake up in the middle of the night? The worst nightmares are sudden leg cramps, ...

Dear Dr. Gott: I am 64 and had nightly leg cramps that interrupted my sleep and drove me crazy. Hot baths at bedtime, quinine pills in the evening, potassium/zinc tablets and calcium supplements were ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Vitamin K 2 markedly reduced the mean weekly frequency of nocturnal leg cramps in the intervention group. The ...

This is my third column on muscle cramps, and my last for a good while. But readers have responded in droves to the two recent columns, enthusiastically sharing their “cures,” which I will pass on one ...

This article is a transcribed, edited summary of a video Bob and Brad recorded in July 2024. For the original video, go to https://youtu.be/kv1XytFlMro Brad: Oh, oh ...

Athletes use pickle juice as an electrolyte replenishment to prevent muscle cramps. Pickle juice is rich in sodium and contains a small amount of potassium. Pickle juice isn't a research-backed remedy ...

To Readers • A recent discussion of nighttime leg cramps brought an avalanche of readers' remedies, as it always does. I can't submit all for publication, but I'll try to include more throughout the ...