CRAMPS & HOMEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS

CRAMPS AND HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS

A cramp is a sudden, involuntary muscle contraction or overshortening; while generally temporary and non-damaging, they can cause significant pain and a paralysis-like immobility of the affected muscle. Muscle cramps are common and are often associated with pregnancy, physical exercise or overexertion, age (common in older adults), or may be a sign of a motor neuron disorders.Cramps may occur in a skeletal muscle or smooth muscle. Skeletal muscle cramps may be caused by muscle fatigue or a lack of electrolytes.

One may also experience cramps in:

Abdominal wall

Arms

Hands

Feet

The intense pain of a cramp can awaken a person at night or make it difficult to walk.

A sudden, sharp pain, lasting from a few seconds to 15 minutes, is the most common symptom of a cramp. In some cases, a bulging lump of muscle tissue beneath the skin can accompany a cramp as well.

Writer's cramp or focal hand dystonia (FHD) is an idiopathic movement disorder of adult onset, characterized by abnormal posturing and movement of the hand and/or forearm during tasks requiring skilled hand use, such as writing.

CAUSES OF CRAMPS

Cramps have several causes. Some cramps result from overuse of muscles. This typically occurs while exercising.

Muscle injuries and dehydration can also trigger cramps.

Low levels of any of the following minerals that contribute to healthy muscle function may also cause muscle cramps:

calcium

potassium

sodium

magnesium

Low blood supply to legs and feet can cause cramping in those areas when exercise, walk, or participate in physical activities.

In some cases, a medical condition can cause muscle cramps. These conditions include:

Spinal nerve compression, which can cause muscle cramps in legs when walking or standing

Alcoholism

Pregnancy

Kidney failure

Hypothyroidism, or low thyroid gland function

Other times, the cause of muscle cramps is unknown.

HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS

✔ARGENTUM MET. 

Cramps in hands and feet. Weakness in right arm and tearing sensation in the wrist and the finger tips.

✔ARNICA MONT.

Cramps come on as a result of over exertion or from muscular fatigue. Limbs feels as if beaten. Cramps are better on starting to move and are worse from prolonged mivements, from heat and light pressure.

✔CALCAREA CARB.

Cramps of sever nature,specially in calves, fingers and toes. Worse at night and on stretching.

✔CUPRUM METALLICUM

Cramps in palms. Great weariness of limbs. Cramps in calves and soles. Epilepsy; auro begins in knees. 

✔GELSEMIUM

Loss of power of muscular control. Cramp in muscles of forearm. Professional neuroses. Writer's cramp. Excessive trembling and weakness of all limbs. Hysteric convulsions. Fatigue after slight exercise.

✔KALI PHOS

Kali Phos is the best natural remedy when slight exertion of hand leads to cramping conditions. Slight exertion of hand in writing results in contraction of muscles. Numbness may also be felt by the person along with contracted muscles. 

✔LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM

Cramps in calves and toes at night in bed. Limbs go to sleep. Twitching and jerking.One foot hot, the other cold. Sciatica, worse right side.

✔MAGNESIUM PHOSPHORICUM

Writers' and players' cramp. Tetanic spasms. Weakness in arms and hands, finger-tips stiff and numb. General muscular weakness.Involuntary shaking of hands. Paralysis agitans. Cramps in calves. Sciatica; feet very tender. Darting pains. Twitchings.

✔RHUS TOXICODENDRON

Cramps by swimming in cold water.cramps in the calf muscles and legs by stretching, specially at night. Cramps worse by rest and better by movements.

✔SECALE CORNUTUM

Cold, dry hands and feet of excessive smokers with feeling of fuzziness in fingers. Violent cramps. Icy coldness of extremities. Violent pain in finger-tips, tingling in toes.

✔STANNUM MET

Writer’s Cramp with jerking in hands while writing. The jerking appears on holding the pen. The hand and arms also feel heavy while writing. The patient may also experience weakness of hand of paralytic type that results in the dropping of objects from the hand frequently. Stannum is also one of the best medicines for a professional typist with paralytic symptoms.

✔SILICEA

While writing, the person experiences a contraction of muscles with the rigidity of hands. The flexibility of hand is lost. Pain of tearing nature may also be felt. 

✔VIBURNUM OPULUS

A general remedy for cramps. Colicky pains in pelvic organs. Sudden cramps and colic pains. Tender to pressure about umbilicus.

Menses too late, scanty, lasting a few hours, offensive in odor, with crampy pains, cramps extend down thighs 

By 

Dr.Nitin Jain

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