Medically reviewed by Mallory Christopherson DC, FMT, CSCS You may get muscle cramps from dehydration, mineral loss, or overuse during exercise. Warm up and stretch your muscles before exercise, and ...

We've all been there before. Running along the basketball court or swimming across the pool, when, all of a sudden, we experience a sharp pain in our foot or leg. Muscle cramps are common, affect ...

Though many people experience muscle twitching, it's often incorrectly identified as a muscle spasm. While both are involuntary contractions of a muscle, muscle spasms and muscle twitching aren't ...

The result is excessive activation of motor neurons that stimulate muscle fibers into a sustained, involuntary contraction – a cramp ... necessarily the inherent properties of the surface that causes ...

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.

However, there could be many more because dystonia is one of the most widely underdiagnosed movement disorders. It is often ...

Imagine going to the gym for the first time or after an extended break. Following a good warm-up, you move to the squat rack, load up the bar and crack on. You might think that this doesn’t feel too ...

To understand what causes muscle fatigue, it’s worth looking at what exactly muscle fatigue is. If you exercise regularly, you may be familiar with the sensation of a dull ache in your muscles or ...