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A problem here shows you feeling powerless in a situation, as if you were in a straitjacket. You feel diminished in a strength that may be physical, intellectual or emotional. Performance falls.",[264,285,286,287,291,292,295],{},"Your experiences, and the feelings attached to them, are said to be soaked into the muscles. The inner state matches the muscle: tense and nervous, or released. Muscles react strongly to too much stress. Because the body is made of them, the source says the body takes the shape of your thoughts and attitudes. If you let yourself slide into ",[288,289,290],"a",{"href":205},"depression",", negativism or ",[288,293,294],{"href":211},"fear",", the posture follows. Joy of living, drive and a positive stance are read as muscles that stay firm and flexible.",[264,297,298,299,302],{},"Muscles wrap the bones, so they also stand for the deep feelings of your emotional life. If you are not in contact with those feelings, and you privilege the material and artificial side of life, the muscles suffer. You stay on your guard. A permanent nervousness is there. The ",[288,300,301],{"href":60},"joints and bones"," are the structure underneath. Accepting a transformation, and living the present instead of clinging to the past, is what the entry says keeps muscle healthy.",[277,304,306],{"id":305},"what-the-tendons-represent","What the tendons represent",[264,308,309],{},"A tendon is the hyphen between muscle and the bone it pulls on. Soft tissue, in this reading, is mental energy joining spiritual energy, so that expression and a complete movement can be one thing. Supple tendons show suppleness toward yourself and toward others. Rigid tendons reflect rigid tendencies. If the mental energy is stiff, you become inflexible, and the soft tissue feels it.",[264,311,312,313,316],{},"Pain comes when what you think you ought to do conflicts with the inner voice that says what you actually want. You tend to belittle yourself. The tendon decides one direction. The bone, read as the deep and spiritual energy, wishes to go the other way. The source asks you to look at which tendon is touched. A wrist tendon, for example, raises the question of the activity that uses the wrists and hands, and the impression that you are not good enough or that you could do better. What are you ",[288,314,315],{"href":187},"apprehensive"," about? Where do you need to improve in order to reach a future aim, while feeling powerless to do it? You feel chained, unable to get where you are going. You need someone to hold out a hand.",[277,318,320],{"id":319},"caring-for-muscle-from-the-inside","Caring for muscle from the inside",[264,322,323,324],{},"Overuse, injury, nerve disease and inflammation are real causes of muscle and tendon pain. The emotional perspective adds a question: ",[325,326,327],"em",{},"where is my strength, and which voice am I refusing to follow?",[329,330,331,339,345,351,357,363],"ul",{},[332,333,334,338],"li",{},[335,336,337],"strong",{},"Notice the posture."," A body that has collapsed or braced is read as the shape of the thought.",[332,340,341,344],{},[335,342,343],{},"Name the powerlessness."," The straitjacket is the image for a situation you cannot move.",[332,346,347,350],{},[335,348,349],{},"Live one piece of the present."," Clinging to the past is what the muscle entry sets against health.",[332,352,353,356],{},[335,354,355],{},"Ask which tendon, and which task."," The place of the pain is the clue to the activity you are belittling.",[332,358,359,362],{},[335,360,361],{},"Hear the inner voice beside the duty."," The conflict between the two is the tendon pain in this reading.",[332,364,365,368],{},[335,366,367],{},"Rest a tear."," Meaning does not replace a diagnosis when the movement has gone.",{"title":370,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":371},"",[372,373,374],{"id":279,"depth":18,"text":280},{"id":305,"depth":18,"text":306},{"id":319,"depth":18,"text":320},"2026-10-04","md",[378,382],{"id":379,"title":380,"description":381},"muscles","Muscles","Muscles as the effort it takes to move forward, and as the posture your thoughts take in the body.",{"id":383,"title":384,"description":385},"tendons","Tendons","Tendons as the join between thought and bone, strained when the inner voice and the duty pull apart.",{},true,[389,390,391,392,393,394],"Where do I feel powerless, as if I were held in a straitjacket?","Is my body tense because my thoughts are tense?","Am I clinging to the past instead of living this day?","Which tendon hurts, and which activity makes me feel I am not good enough?","Where does what I think I ought to do fight what I actually want?","What help am I refusing, while I feel chained?",{"title":111,"description":112},[397],{"author":398,"work":399,"entries":400,"pages":403},"Jacques Martel","Le Grand Dictionnaire des Malaises et des Maladies",[401,402],"Muscle(s) (en général...)","Tendon (en général)","280–281, 404–405","areas\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons",[406,407,408,409,210,410],"Action","Strength","Flexibility","Inner voice","Effort",[412,413,414,415,416,417],"A muscle that is torn, with a sudden pain, a gap or a bruise you cannot walk or lift through.","Pain with swelling, redness and fever. This can be an infection.","Weakness that is new and spreading, or weakness with trouble breathing or swallowing. Seek urgent care.","A tendon pain that stops you using the limb, or a snap followed by loss of movement.","Calf pain with swelling of one leg. This can be a clot. Seek urgent care.","Pain after a fall, or pain that is still worsening after a few days of rest.","VLgJ_IHracbx_daYBfzzzOBjqxOpkzfYAm-gAgWv9o0",[420,554,721],{"id":421,"title":422,"affirmation":423,"aka":424,"area":428,"body":429,"dateModified":375,"datePublished":375,"description":517,"extension":376,"group":383,"meta":518,"navigation":387,"path":519,"reflectionQuestions":520,"related":527,"sameAs":528,"seo":531,"sources":532,"stem":537,"summary":538,"supportIntro":539,"themes":540,"whenToSeeADoctor":546,"__hash__":553},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons\u002Fachilles-tendon.md","Achilles tendon","I put something into motion toward the aims I have set. I base my life on sure human values, and I grow stronger by being myself.",[425,426,427],"Achilles tendinopathy","Achilles tendinitis","Tendo Achilles pain","muscles-and-tendons",{"type":261,"value":430,"toc":512},[431,435,438,451,455,458,461,464,467,471,474],[277,432,434],{"id":433},"what-the-achilles-tendon-is","What the Achilles tendon is",[264,436,437],{},"The Achilles tendon joins the calf muscle to the heel bone. It is the strongest tendon in the body. It can bear a load of hundreds of kilos, and it is what lets you rise onto your toes and push the ground away. It works harder when you are standing, upright, than when you are lying down. Overuse, a sudden increase in running or walking, tight calves, and some medicines make it painful or swollen. That is tendinopathy. A rupture is a different event: a pop, a gap, and an ankle that will not push. Both need proper care. Rest alone, or a burst of heroic stretching, can make a sore tendon worse.",[264,439,440,441,445,446,450],{},"The emotional reading below asks what you are asking this cord to carry, and what the inside is standing on. ",[288,442,444],{"href":443},"\u002Flegs-and-feet\u002Fcalf-pain","Calf pain"," and ",[288,447,449],{"href":448},"\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons\u002Fmuscle-cramps","muscle cramps"," are the neighbouring complaints.",[277,452,454],{"id":453},"the-emotional-meaning-of-achilles-pain","The emotional meaning of Achilles pain",[264,456,457],{},"This tendon is how thoughts and desires, physical and spiritual, are read as taking form. It also expresses a block in the movement of the ankle. You may have a great desire for stability that is hard to realise because money is precarious.",[264,459,460],{},"The tendon can bear a lot. Do you have the impression of carrying a lot too? It can be strong and bear a heavy load if the base, the inside, is solid. If you feel a void inside, what can you lean on? Perhaps you give too much importance to the container, to the outside of things. What about the content? What are your priorities, your values? What does your life rest on? Are you in contact with what is essential in you, or only at the level of how things appear?",[264,462,463],{},"Is there a rupture in your relations with other people, particularly with your children or your parents? Do you always need to move, to leave, as if you could not stay in one place for long?",[264,465,466],{},"The tendon fragilises when you live an impossibility of rising. That can be the desire for a promotion, a change of social rank, the desire to be part of a professional sports team, while obstacles keep it from taking material form.",[277,468,470],{"id":469},"a-gentler-way-to-hold-it","A gentler way to hold it",[264,472,473],{},"The direction is to put things into action so that dreams and the aims you set yourself can be realised. You base your life on sure human values. You increase your inner strength by being yourself. A tendon still needs graded load, not a sudden proof that you can bear anything.",[329,475,476,482,488,494,500,506],{},[332,477,478,481],{},[335,479,480],{},"Ask whether the inside is solid."," A heavy outside on a hollow inside is the question.",[332,483,484,487],{},[335,485,486],{},"Separate container from content."," Appearance and value are not the same support.",[332,489,490,493],{},[335,491,492],{},"Name the rise that will not happen."," A promotion, a rank, a team: obstacles are part of this picture.",[332,495,496,499],{},[335,497,498],{},"Look at a ruptured bond."," Children, parents, or the need to keep leaving.",[332,501,502,505],{},[335,503,504],{},"Notice the wish for stability against a precarious base."," Money is the example the reading gives. It is a question, not a judgement.",[332,507,508,511],{},[335,509,510],{},"Have a pop in the tendon seen the same day."," A rupture is not a symbol of a broken relationship.",{"title":370,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":513},[514,515,516],{"id":433,"depth":18,"text":434},{"id":453,"depth":18,"text":454},{"id":469,"depth":18,"text":470},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of Achilles tendon pain: how it may relate to a heavy load, a hollow inside, and a wish to rise that will not take form.",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons\u002Fachilles-tendon",[521,522,523,524,525,526],"Do I feel I am carrying too much, the way this tendon can?","If the inside feels like nothing, what am I actually standing on?","Am I more concerned with the container, how things look, than with the content?","What are my priorities and my values, and does my life rest on them?","Where is there a rupture with my children, my parents, or someone else close?","Which promotion, change of rank, or team do I want, that obstacles will not let take form?",[448,443],[529,530],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAchilles_tendinitis","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ24738",{"title":422,"description":517},[533],{"author":398,"work":399,"entries":534,"pages":536},[535],"Tendon d'Achille","405","conditions\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons\u002Fachilles-tendon","The Achilles tendon joins calf to heel and carries enormous load. Pain there is read as thoughts and desires that cannot land, a heavy burden on a hollow inside, and a wish to rise that obstacles keep postponing.","If this reading resonates with you, asking what you are standing on, appearance or value, can be a good next step while the tendon is given the load it can actually bear.",[541,542,543,544,545],"A heavy load","Stability","Inner ground","Appearance","A blocked rise",[547,548,549,550,551,552],"A sudden snap, as if you were struck at the back of the ankle, and you cannot push off or stand on your toes. A rupture needs same-day care.","Pain, stiffness or swelling along the tendon that is not easing after a week or two of relative rest.","Pain with redness, heat and fever, which can be infection or another inflammatory illness.","You are on certain antibiotics or steroids and the tendon has become painful. Tell a doctor.","Do not push through a sharp pain with stretching or a sudden return to running.","A clinician can tell tendinopathy from a tear. The treatment is load management, not a story about ambition.","Uj5RxoCrHwQdjeNhtx405UErVNHdE0qSbk1T1zDEfOk",{"id":555,"title":556,"affirmation":557,"aka":558,"area":428,"body":561,"dateModified":375,"datePublished":375,"description":686,"extension":376,"group":379,"meta":687,"navigation":387,"path":688,"reflectionQuestions":689,"related":696,"sameAs":697,"seo":700,"sources":701,"stem":706,"summary":707,"supportIntro":708,"themes":709,"whenToSeeADoctor":714,"__hash__":720},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons\u002Ffibromyalgia.md","Fibromyalgia","I can care for myself and give myself the softness I need. I do not have to be a superwoman or a superman. I only have to be myself.",[559,560],"Fibromyalgia syndrome","Fibrositis",{"type":261,"value":562,"toc":679},[563,567,570,573,577,584,591,595,598,605,609,636,638,641],[277,564,566],{"id":565},"what-fibromyalgia-is","What fibromyalgia is",[264,568,569],{},"Fibromyalgia is a long condition of widespread pain in the muscles and soft tissues, with tenderness, a burning quality to the ache, sleep that does not restore, extreme fatigue and stiffness that is often worst in the morning. Thinking can feel slowed or fogged. It is diagnosed more often in women than in men. An older way of diagnosing it counted tender points across the body and treated eleven of them as enough. Clinicians now look at the spread of the pain, the fatigue, the sleep and the other symptoms, and they rule out illnesses that can look similar. The cause is not settled. Poor deep sleep, a physical injury, an infection and a nervous system that has become very sensitive to pain are all discussed. None of them is a mood, and none of them is something you can diagnose in yourself.",[264,571,572],{},"Care is usually paced movement, help with sleep, and sometimes medicine chosen by a doctor. Chronic fatigue has its own chapter in the dictionary and is not this page. The reading below does not replace a diagnosis, and it does not replace the plan you were given.",[277,574,576],{"id":575},"the-emotional-meaning-of-fibromyalgia","The emotional meaning of fibromyalgia",[264,578,579,580,583],{},"The pain is read as sitting beside a thought that you are worth nothing, and beside a feeling of being powerless to change your life. The syndrome is tied to perfectionism, to ",[288,581,582],{"href":181},"anxiety",", and to a high demand on yourself that has gone past your limits. A great moral pain follows you constantly. It may go back to an event in younger life that left a heavy guilt. You feel you are in the way. Asserting yourself is hard. You do not feel up to it. You have the impression of having fallen from a height.",[264,585,586,587,590],{},"You feel a great deal of pressure from the people around you. Under that, you are the one pushing too hard. There is ",[288,588,589],{"href":175},"anger",", with the impression of receiving no love from those around you. You no longer want to go forward. You would rather cut yourself off from your feelings, because there is no softness in the life. The question that belongs with the constant pain is where it comes from, not a verdict that you produced it.",[277,592,594],{"id":593},"the-same-gesture-over-and-over","The same gesture, over and over",[264,596,597],{},"The pain often shows when the gestures are repetitive and monotonous. That repetition is read as recalling the moral suffering of forcing yourself, without end, to carry responsibilities you did not really choose. You wanted to stay faithful to principles that stood against your deep needs. You are living a life you have no taste for.",[264,599,600,601,604],{},"The ",[288,602,603],{"href":116},"muscles and tendons"," are the tissues that do that repeating work. A strain or a tear is still a physical injury. Widespread pain that has no injury behind it is the picture here.",[277,606,608],{"id":607},"where-the-pain-sits","Where the pain sits",[264,610,611,612,616,617,621,622,626,627,631,632,635],{},"Eighteen places are named as especially sore, across muscles and tendons: the shoulders, the neck, between the shoulder blades, the lower back, the sciatic nerve, the knees, the elbows, the wrists and the chest. The neck and the region between the shoulder blades belong with the ",[288,613,615],{"href":614},"\u002Fback\u002Fupper-back-and-neck-pain","upper back and neck",". The ",[288,618,620],{"href":619},"\u002Fback\u002Flower-back-pain","lower back"," and the ",[288,623,625],{"href":624},"\u002Fback\u002Fsciatica","sciatic nerve"," have their own pages. So do the ",[288,628,630],{"href":629},"\u002Fjoints-and-bones\u002Fknee-pain","knees",". The elbows, the wrists and the shoulders are the ",[288,633,634],{"href":123},"arms and hands",". Pain in one of these places can be fibromyalgia, and it can be something else that lives there. The place is a question to sit with alongside the examination.",[277,637,470],{"id":469},[264,639,640],{},"The direction is to learn to take care of yourself, and to give yourself the softness you have been short of. Let the child in you live, the one who grew up too fast. You no longer have to be a superwoman, or a superman. You only have to be yourself. You have the right to be happy, and to live in joy. Let creativity come out through play, art, sport, or any activity that brings a greater ease. That is how a life opens, and how a peace can settle.",[329,642,643,649,655,661,667,673],{},[332,644,645,648],{},[335,646,647],{},"Notice the demand that has passed your limit."," Perfectionism and anxiety are the climate this pain is read in.",[332,650,651,654],{},[335,652,653],{},"Separate other people's pressure from your own push."," Both can be present. The second is the one to look at.",[332,656,657,660],{},[335,658,659],{},"Ask which duty you did not choose."," Monotonous, repeated work is the gesture that wakes the question.",[332,662,663,666],{},[335,664,665],{},"Name a principle that fights a real need."," Faithfulness to that principle is part of the picture.",[332,668,669,672],{},[335,670,671],{},"Offer yourself one softness."," Play, art or a sport is the form suggested.",[332,674,675,678],{},[335,676,677],{},"Keep the medical plan."," Paced movement, sleep, and a medicine you were prescribed stay with your clinician.",{"title":370,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":680},[681,682,683,684,685],{"id":565,"depth":18,"text":566},{"id":575,"depth":18,"text":576},{"id":593,"depth":18,"text":594},{"id":607,"depth":18,"text":608},{"id":469,"depth":18,"text":470},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of fibromyalgia: how it may relate to perfectionism, anxiety, a moral pain that will not leave, and a life pushed past its limits.",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons\u002Ffibromyalgia",[690,691,692,693,694,695],"Where am I demanding more of myself than my limits can hold?","Which pressure do I blame on other people, while I am the one pushing?","What younger event still sits in me as guilt?","Where do I feel I have fallen from a height, and that I am no longer up to it?","Which repeated, monotonous duty reminds me of a life I do not want?","Which principle am I staying faithful to, against a need I have not admitted?",[624,619,614,629],[698,699],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FFibromyalgia","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ540571",{"title":556,"description":686},[702],{"author":398,"work":399,"entries":703,"pages":705},[704],"Fibromyalgie","185–186","conditions\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons\u002Ffibromyalgia","Fibromyalgia is widespread muscle pain with fatigue, poor sleep and morning stiffness. It is read as perfectionism pushed past its limit, a moral pain that follows you, and responsibilities you never really chose.","If this reading resonates with you, asking where you are pushing past your own limit can be a good next step, alongside the care plan a clinician has already set.",[710,180,711,712,713],"Perfectionism","Moral pain","Pressure","Responsibilities you did not choose",[715,716,717,718,719],"Widespread pain, deep fatigue, unrefreshing sleep or stiffness that is new or getting worse. Fibromyalgia is a clinical diagnosis. Blood tests are used to look for other causes, including thyroid disease, anaemia and inflammatory arthritis.","Pain with fever, unexplained weight loss, a rash, or joints that are hot and swollen. These point away from fibromyalgia and need a prompt check.","Chest pain, breathlessness, sudden weakness, or a pain that follows an injury. Seek urgent care.","Pain with hopelessness, or with thoughts that life is not worth living. Tell a doctor, or someone close to you, the same day.","Do not stop a prescribed medicine, including one given for pain, sleep or mood, because a reading has made sense of the ache.","vy_K5cG6RBBwypbcZlfLUWRS336iM9Wg4VmneOeMhFE",{"id":722,"title":723,"affirmation":724,"aka":725,"area":428,"body":729,"dateModified":375,"datePublished":375,"description":809,"extension":376,"group":379,"meta":810,"navigation":387,"path":811,"reflectionQuestions":812,"related":819,"sameAs":820,"seo":823,"sources":824,"stem":829,"summary":830,"supportIntro":831,"themes":832,"whenToSeeADoctor":837,"__hash__":844},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons\u002Fmuscle-cramps.md","Muscle cramps","I can let go at the level of the heart. I open to a new possibility, and I notice what is already beautiful here.",[726,727,728],"Cramps","Muscle spasm","Charley horse",{"type":261,"value":730,"toc":804},[731,735,738,748,752,755,758,760,763],[277,732,734],{"id":733},"what-a-muscle-cramp-is","What a muscle cramp is",[264,736,737],{},"A muscle cramp is a sudden, involuntary, painful contraction. The muscle locks, often in the calf, the foot or the thigh, and often at night. Most cramps are harmless. They are more common in pregnancy, in older age, after exercise, in the heat, and when fluid or salts are low. Some medicines provoke them. Stretching the muscle usually releases it. A cramp that comes with swelling, heat or breathlessness is a different problem and needs urgent care, because a clot can feel like a cramp at the start.",[264,739,740,741,744,745,747],{},"The emotional reading below asks what is being held. It does not replace a check when the cramp is new, one-sided or accompanied by swelling. The ",[288,742,422],{"href":743},"\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons\u002Fachilles-tendon"," is the cord that often meets a calf in trouble. ",[288,746,444],{"href":443}," has its own page.",[277,749,751],{"id":750},"the-emotional-meaning-of-muscle-cramps","The emotional meaning of muscle cramps",[264,753,754],{},"A cramp of muscular origin means you are holding something you do not want to let go. It is a great inner tension, expressed as a block of energy in the muscle. The muscle itself stands for energy, life and strength. So you \"block\" life by not letting go of old thoughts, thoughts that change and that transform in a body which is itself evolving. You still have old preconceived principles, and you carry them into the actions of every day.",[264,756,757],{},"You are \"under tension\", asking yourself a thousand and one questions. Your attention sits on certain worries that take so much of your energy that you end up disconnected from the physical body. It matters to check which part of the body the cramps affect, because that part is a clue to what is being held.",[277,759,470],{"id":469},[264,761,762],{},"From now, the direction is to let go at the level of the heart, and to open more to the new possibilities that can move you forward. You cannot change the past. You can change your interpretation of events. You become more and more aware of the beauties that are already present. Quiet attention, and any practice that helps a body settle, can help useless tension leave and bring the inner life back into harmony. That is a complement to stretching a cramped muscle, not a substitute for it.",[329,764,765,771,777,783,792,798],{},[332,766,767,770],{},[335,768,769],{},"Ask what you will not release."," Holding on is the whole picture of a cramp.",[332,772,773,776],{},[335,774,775],{},"Name one old principle you are still acting out."," The muscle is where it has gone hard.",[332,778,779,782],{},[335,780,781],{},"Notice the worry that takes you out of the body."," A thousand questions are a kind of absence.",[332,784,785,788,789,791],{},[335,786,787],{},"Look at where it cramps."," The calf, the hand, the foot: the place is part of the question. The ",[288,790,603],{"href":116}," page is the wider map.",[332,793,794,797],{},[335,795,796],{},"Change the interpretation, not the past."," That is the only lever this reading claims.",[332,799,800,803],{},[335,801,802],{},"Have a hot, swollen \"cramp\" seen."," A clot is not a metaphor.",{"title":370,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":805},[806,807,808],{"id":733,"depth":18,"text":734},{"id":750,"depth":18,"text":751},{"id":469,"depth":18,"text":470},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of muscle cramps: how they may relate to holding on, old principles, and a mind so busy it leaves the body behind.",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons\u002Fmuscle-cramps",[813,814,815,816,817,818],"What am I holding that I do not want to let go?","Which old principle am I still carrying into ordinary actions?","Which worry is taking so much energy that I have left my body behind?","Where in the body does the cramp come, and what does that part ask of me?","Can I change my reading of a past event, even if I cannot change the event?","What new possibility would open if I unclenched?",[743,443],[821,822],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FCramp","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ2006818",{"title":723,"description":809},[825],{"author":398,"work":399,"entries":826,"pages":828},[827],"Crampes musculaires","130","conditions\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons\u002Fmuscle-cramps","A muscle cramp is a sudden, painful tightening. It is read as holding on to something you do not want to let go, old principles carried into daily action, and attention so caught in worry that you lose the body.","If this reading resonates with you, asking what the cramped muscle is refusing to release can be a good next step, once a medical cause has been considered.",[833,834,835,255,836],"Holding on","Inner tension","Old principles","Disconnection from the body",[838,839,840,841,842,843],"A cramp with a swollen, hot or red limb, especially after a journey, surgery or illness. This can be a blood clot. Seek urgent care.","Cramps with muscle weakness, dark urine, or swelling that does not ease.","Cramps that started with a new medicine, including water tablets or statins.","Frequent night cramps that disturb sleep, or cramps during pregnancy that worry you.","Cramps with numbness, or only on one side, which need a neurological check.","Stretching, fluids and a look at salts help many ordinary cramps. They do not explain a clot.","2nuoC2b6ZOFgdkRaeyL6SjVogmaNAdlOR-OpkQD8h54",[],[],1791107648934]