We've all been there before. Running along the basketball court or swimming across the pool, when, all of a sudden, we experience a sharp pain in our foot or leg. Muscle cramps are common, affect ...

Though many people experience muscle twitching, it's often incorrectly identified as a muscle spasm. While both are involuntary contractions of a muscle, muscle spasms and muscle twitching aren't ...

You may get muscle cramps from dehydration, mineral loss, or overuse during exercise. Warm up and stretch your muscles before ...

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For athletes across all sports, few experiences are as agonizing as being forced to leave competition with a sudden muscle cramp. These painful, uncontrolled spasms – formally known as ...

Muscle cramps are sudden, painful, involuntary muscle contractions caused by motor nerve hyperexcitability. They often affect ...

Imagine going to the gym for the first time or after an extended break. Following a good warm-up, you move to the squat rack, load up the bar and crack on. You might think that this doesn’t feel too ...

A rarer condition that causes eye twitching is known as blepharospasm and involves “forceful, involuntary closure of both eyes at the same time,” Moss says. She notes that blepharospasm can range from ...