If you’ve ever experienced leg cramps at night, you know they’re no joke. They can rudely interrupt your sleep and startle you awake with a jolt of pain. Although they’re quite common, getting rid of ...

You’re fast asleep when a sudden, knife-like pain in your leg jars you out of dreamland. It’s a charley horse – sharp, relentless, and completely unexpected. But why do night cramps strike in the dead ...

Dear Dr. Gott: This is in response to your asking for more results from putting a bar of soap under the bed sheets to stop leg cramps. I had been bothered with severe leg and feet cramps disrupting my ...

Dehydration may be one cause of muscle cramps, and some evidence suggests that electrolyte imbalances also contribute to them. Muscle cramps are painful, involuntary contractions of the muscles that ...