How to stop leg cramp once it has started?!
Question:
How to stop leg cramp once it has started?
It happens to me sometimes that i wake at night and feel a leg cramp coming on. Once it is here in full, it is VERY painful. Is there anything I can do quickly to stop a full blown leg cramp?
Additional Details1 month ago
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Answers:
I used to get then in my calves all the time in high school. It was excruciating! At first I tried massaging them, but it took forever to get the rock-hard muscle to relax and most of the time I was in tears before it finally receded....and I tolerate pain pretty well! Then a friend suggested to stretch it out. So then when I first started feeling the pain comming, I'd stretch my calf so my toes were pointing as far towards my head as I could get them to reach and it was instant relief. That will certainly do the trick for you. I still get them on occasion, once a year or so, and it still works this way.
Good luck!