The most common leg cramps occur during sleep and can often wake you up due to the terrible pain. But what exactly are leg cramps, who is likely to get them, and why do they happen? Women's health ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A doctor, who describes 'your feet as a diagnostic window into your health problems,' has provided a list of 'common disease ...