You could be fast asleep when suddenly, a sharp, paralyzing stiffness jolts you awake—usually in your calf or foot. These episodes, commonly known as foot or leg cramps, occur when a muscle tightens ...

Foot cramps at night are a classic sign of muscle fatigue. Other causes of nocturnal foot cramps include low magnesium, hypokalemia, or inadequate footwear. Nocturnal foot cramps are not the same as ...

Some people are woken from deep sleep by cramps in the feet or hands or by tingling pain in the fingers and toes. Sometime last week, one gentleman told me he had had soreness in the palm of one hand ...

WHEN one of my friends wanted to sign a cheque recently, and the two fingers to hold the pen couldn’t do the job, and a doctor suggested he may have had a partial stroke, he had to embark on serious ...