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 ...

Why leg cramps, or Charley horses, occur is often not clear. However, they may result from nerve dysfunction and various health conditions, such as diabetes and kidney failure. Leg cramps involve ...

The Spaniard received treatment courtside in the third set of his Australian Open semifinal, much to opponent Alexander Zverev's frustration ...

Patients suffering from leg cramps at night don't get any more relief from these symptoms with a magnesium pill than they do with a dummy pill, a recent Israeli study suggests. Researchers randomly ...

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.

What is a muscle cramp? It can happen after intense exercise or in the dead of night when you’re doing nothing at all but sleeping. A muscle — say your calf — seizes up without warning, leaving you ...

Patients often tell Dr. Kiran V. Patel they've been sipping on quinine water to help ease leg cramps. Well-meaning relatives and even some doctors recommend it, said Patel, who's the director of ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Would you discuss causes of nocturnal leg cramps? I have exhausted all of the common remedies without success. — R.S., M.D. ANSWER: Leg cramps are common. They begin suddenly and ...

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 ...

Alcaraz’s medical timeout left Zverev irate with Australian Open officials.

*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 ...