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  1. cramping

    A cramp is a sudden, involuntary, painful skeletal muscle contraction or overshortening associated with electrical activity; while generally temporary and non-damaging, they can cause significant pain and a paralysis-like immobility of the affected muscle. A cramp usually goes away on its own over a period of several seconds, or minutes. Cramps are common and tend to occur at rest, usually at night (nocturnal leg cramps). They are also often associated with pregnancy, physical exercise or overexertion, age (common in older adults), in such cases, cramps are called idiopathic, because there is no underlying pathology. In addition to those benign conditions cramps are also associated with many pathologic conditions.Skeletal muscle cramps may be caused by muscle fatigue or a lack of electrolytes such as sodium (a condition called hyponatremia), potassium (called hypokalemia), or magnesium (called hypomagnesemia). Some skeletal muscle cramps do not have a known cause. Motor neuron disorders (e.g., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), metabolic disorders (e.g., liver failure), some medications (e.g., diuretics and inhaled beta‐agonists), and haemodialysis may also cause muscle cramps.Cramp definition is narrower than the definition of muscle spasm: spasms include any involuntary abnormal muscle contractions, while cramps are sustained and painful. True cramps can be distinguished from other cramp-like conditions. Cramps are different from muscle contracture, which is also painful and involuntary, but which is electrically silent. The main distinguishing features of cramps from dystonia are suddenness with acute onset of pain, involvement of only one muscle and spontaneous resolution of cramps or their resolution after stretching the affected muscle. Restless leg syndrome is not considered the same as muscle cramps and should not be confused with rest cramps.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cramping in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cramping in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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  1. Justin Gatlin:

    I was happy to stay. I'm fit and ready to run. I was cramping a lot after the fastest my body has ever run, they didn't have any respect for me so they said' you better leave' and they kicked me out.

  2. Samantha Evans:

    If I’m writing by pen longer than 20 minutes, my hand cramps, if I run, my feet start cramping. Besides that, nothing. I walk normally now.

  3. Andrew Sherman:

    He said his legs were locking up and he was cramping really badly, and he just laid there on the back of the deck and recovered a little bit, and then he came in and we hugged, he was like, thank you for saving my life.

  4. Samantha Evans:

    If I run, my feet start cramping. Besides that, nothing. I walk normally now.

  5. Daniil Medvedev:

    It would be not a good feeling if I lost three finals in a row so it's just a relief and I'm so happy, i started feeling cramps at 5-3( in the second set), first time in three weeks I started cramping, probably because of the nerves and it's been 24 days in a row I played tennis.

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