Vitamin K supplementation may serve as a nocturnal leg cramps treatment reducing frequency, intensity, and duration in older adults.

A healthcare provider might recommend pain medication or anticonvulsant drugs to reduce leg cramps. Thyroid disorders may also contribute to leg cramps. Your thyroid is a gland that controls how ...

For those who are overweight or have very swollen legs, your surgeon may also recommend a compression pump, a plastic sleeve ...

However, pain in the legs could also indicate something more serious that requires treatment, such as injuries to the nerves or bones in the leg. Treating leg pain is highly dependent on its cause ...

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The first comprehensive guidelines dedicated to minimizing infections in patients undergoing surgeries and procedures ...

Chemotherapy has been known to cause damage to peripheral nerves, and sometimes the pain is chronic and severe enough that chemotherapy doses are reduced or discontinued. But prior research has not ...

This paper discusses the common causes of exercise induced lower leg pain, including chronic compartment syndrome (CCS), medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS) and chronic calf tears (CCT). The ...

Leg pain can be either injury related or overuse related. Leg injury in soccer players usually involves contusion from a direct blow or a muscle strain from a stretch type injury. Treatment is ...

One day, I noticed a pain in the back of my right leg that only subsided when I elevated my leg. I decided to prop my leg up in another office chair and continue working. About 2 days after the ...