Just stretching out your calf muscles by bracing your hands at vaguely shoulder height, while also stretching your back, still held straight, and stretching your leg behind you as far as you can, and holding for a count of 90 can do a lot. Also, are you getting enough potassium?
I have so many cramps and so due to my damaged vertabrae and the wearing away of the disks. If I do this frequently during the week -- and use sole inserts in my boots, during boot weather, etc. -- it reduces the frequeny, intensity and duration of them all enormously.
As soon as a week, ten days, goes by without this (and, well, yes, associated workouts, which would be hard for you to schedule with a young child, one would think), and the cramps come back, hard and mean. Like this week after 16 days in the un airconditioned car for 2000 miles. I'm back at the stretches and workouts again that we're home, and already the crmaps are easing off.
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Date: 2013-06-05 01:44 am (UTC)I have so many cramps and so due to my damaged vertabrae and the wearing away of the disks. If I do this frequently during the week -- and use sole inserts in my boots, during boot weather, etc. -- it reduces the frequeny, intensity and duration of them all enormously.
As soon as a week, ten days, goes by without this (and, well, yes, associated workouts, which would be hard for you to schedule with a young child, one would think), and the cramps come back, hard and mean. Like this week after 16 days in the un airconditioned car for 2000 miles. I'm back at the stretches and workouts again that we're home, and already the crmaps are easing off.
Love, c.