I keep getting painful spasmic cramps in my right foot. Usually happens when I'm lying down and I clench my toes or gently curl them or even move my foot! Really painful for about a minute, then it dies down but I can still feel the tension in the muscles. If I move my foot again soon after it happens again....does anyone know what this is and why it's happening?

Originally posted by noseyrosie
I keep getting painful spasmic cramps in my right foot. Usually happens when I'm lying down and I clench my toes or gently curl them or even move my foot! Really painful for about a minute, then it dies down but I can still feel the tension in the muscles. If I move my foot again soon after it happens again....does anyone know what this is and why it's happening?

I get these sometimes, all i do it stand up and walk for abit "you have to go through pain to get rid of pain"

A foot masarge might do your foot some good
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Originally posted by Mainframe
I get these sometimes, all i do it stand up and walk for abit "you have to go through pain to get rid of pain"

A foot masarge might do your foot some good

I try to do both of these but I can't usually stand on it as too painful.

Are you Pregnant???

Do you drink a lot of alcohol???

Are you sitting for long periods of time??

I only ask because I get cramp when the above are answered 'yes'....:thumbsup:

But obviously not all at the same time...:o

and NO I am not a Doctor!!

I got that a couple of times. I remeber playing football and then trying to stretch by foot and then it hurting. Woke up at 4 the next mroning in agony. couldn't walk. massage my foot over an dover again and used some Savalon (no idea why but I was desperate) and it went:confused:

When I get these I press my foot against something flat and preferably cold.

As I only tend to get them if I curly my toes or put my foot at a weird angle, I try and avoid curling my toes or putting my foot at a weird angle!

Joe

ahhh...savalon, its magic cream! thats what my mum always used to tell me.

I went to the docs about this a few months back. I was told it was posture and that sitting in my chair wrong at work and bending funny did it.

You should check it out though, just in case

Savlon won't cure muscle cramps - its caused by a build-up of lactic acid. The only thing that'll help when they come on is to stretch and massage the muscles that are cramping up. If it's your toes, stand up and put some pressure on them, trying to keep them at an angle from your foot (in an L-shape, if you get my drift). Try and wiggle them about at the same time to get the blood flowing through them.

Or else sit down and bend the toes back - this will allow a more effective hand-wiggle-massage-type-manoeuvre (stop me if you don't understand the technical definitions :hihi: ).

Don't sue me if they drop off. :|

It's probably normal Rosie, as you are hyper flexing your plantar muscles it causes spasming.
Try doing a hyper extension exercise to compensate.

There's a joke in this for you!

"Doctor Doctor! It hurts when I do this..."
""Don't do it then!"" :hihi:

Seriously though foot cramps (http://www.ehow.com/how_2378_treat-foot-cramps.html) do need investigating if they're happening frequently &/or spontaneously without 'provocation testing'.

There's another condition called plantar fasciitis (http://www.ehow.com/how_2378_treat-foot-cramps.html) which I get occasionally when I wear crappy cheap trainers or go long long wlks without building up to the event.


Here's a pic of hyper exetension exercise
* note it's the 'back' foot that's being stretched (http://www.emedx.com/etherx_demo/exercise_archives_demo_icon.jpg)

Hope this helps :thumbsup:

That's what I was describing, very very badly. A picture speaks a thousand words. :blush: