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]]>Cramp develops when you have an involuntary over contraction or sustained muscle contraction. Either way, it's a pain in your life that you don't need.
Normally muscles are constantly contracting and relaxing (shortening and lengthening). Signals from nerves into the muscle tell it to contract, and signals feeding back to our spine and brain then send signals back out to the muscle to relax. The constant process keeps the muscle at a nice resting tone, not too tight and not too loose. This is what we call resting muscle tone.
You could see a cramp as a short circuit in the system where nerves signaling to the muscle are telling it to contract more and more, but the feedback isn't there for messages to be sent back to the spine and brain to send new signals out to tell the muscle to relax.
Cramp is different from a tight and sore muscle. It's usually a very strong contraction. It commonly occurs in the calf, but any muscle can be affected, fingers, toes, shoulder, quads, etc…
You may feel your muscles harden, toes curl and then you feel like you’ve been punched in the muscle for the rest of the day. A severe cramp can cause involuntary movement of fingers and toes or make you rigid with the pain.
If you're suffering from cramp don't keep waiting for it to get better on its own. Seek help with our holistic practitioners. We have osteopaths at MetaMed Wanaka and osteopaths and chiropractors at MetaMed Queenstown experienced with treating cramp.
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