Heart muscle may cramp when it needs more oxygen because of exertion, emotion, or exposure to cold. |
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These include California poppy, Jamaican dogwood, cramp bark and pasque flower. |
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People stand on your toes, nudge towards the front and just cramp your style underneath the arches. |
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Beginners are often plagued by this cramp, which strikes like a boxer's body blow and happens when an overworked diaphragm begins to spasm. |
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That brain cramp enabled Taveras, who had tripled, to score the Astros' fourth straight run in the sixth. |
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The story's entire foundation is based upon a plot hole so gargantuan that anyone not suffering a brain cramp will identify it at once. |
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I developed a cramp in my thumb dialing the volume up and down to compensate for the uneven audio levels. |
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She had to limp through the final stages of the epic encounter, warding off cramp. |
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Whether you call it a cramp, bellyache, side ache, stomachache or stitch, it's a run-zapping pain in the gut. |
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At tea break he was complaining that the writers cramp hurt worse than the bruises he got during the attack. |
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Herbal antispasmodics such as Jamaican dogwood, cramp bark and catnip can be used for relaxing muscle tension and spasms. |
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A more pleasant-tasting tea can be brewed from equal amounts of meadowsweet, wintergreen and cramp bark. |
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But even when mild, such spasm can be undesirable, as in writer's cramp or the analogous problems for musicians. |
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I've been scribbling a lot recently, so much that writer's cramp has set in. |
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A fellow joked afterwards that I should have writer's cramp what with all the books I had to sign. |
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Getting writer's cramp in the midst of What Maisie Knew, Henry James hired a shorthand typist and his style changed accordingly. |
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Native Americans have long used cramp bark, an aptly named antispasmodic herb, to relieve menstrual cramps. |
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I was gradually waking up this morning when I moved my left leg and suddenly got a really bad cramp. |
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You think shooting digitally instead of 35 mm will cramp your creative style and they know that it's your only choice budgetwise. |
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Writer's cramp is the commonest form of focal hand dystonia and is thought to be due to basal ganglia dysfunction. |
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The urge came and went a few times until I experienced a more intense cramp that resulted in my first movement of the day. |
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Those in the back seat explored levels of cramp unfathomable before this trip. |
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Hazards can include jellyfish, cramp and hypothermia and sickness due to untreated sewage pollution. |
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These include carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, Dupuytren's contracture, frozen shoulder, spondylosis of the neck and cramp of the hand. |
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With two out in the bottom of the 12th, Chavez caught righthander Derek Lowe in a brain cramp and stole third without drawing a throw. |
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When fighting out an epic duel with Courier in the Australian Open a few years ago Sampras appeared on the verge of collapse from cramp. |
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They steam implacably ahead while the rest of us flail about in a sea of moral relativism and get nothing but mental cramp for our trouble. |
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I pick up the oversized menu and clench it so tight I start to get a cramp in my thumb. |
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Her only worrying moment came when she felt incipient cramp in her right leg halfway through the test. |
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There's no point in buying shoes that will pinch your toes and cramp your feet all day long. |
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Her quarters were cramp with so many people in them, still, it was a very comfortable home filled with worn tapestries and rag rugs. |
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I rub her back, rock back and forth, murmur soothing nothings against her hair until the cramp subsides. |
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She opened and closed her hands to relieve the cramp that was building in them. |
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Extra time brought tired half chances, cramp galore and an overwhelming sense of a giant-killing in progress. |
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The runner suffers severe muscle pain and cramp as well as crippling abdominal discomfort. |
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Heat exhaustion may have been complicated in Radcliffe's case by heat cramp. |
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If you get up early enough, you can probably travel at least 300 miles per day but don't cramp yourself with time limits. |
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If you get a muscle cramp, try to stretch the muscle in the direction opposite the cramp. |
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The G.M.s polled for baseball's top 50 must be guys who are about to lose their jobs, or they must have all suffered a brain cramp at the same time. |
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Fortunately, the problem only proved to be cramp in both calves. |
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In most cases, the cramp occurs as a result of repetitive exercise. |
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There are a number of possible reasons for muscles to cramp up. |
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He's also partially-sighted, but hasn't let that cramp his style. |
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At least we know this parenthood gig isn't going to cramp our style. |
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He cried too, tears of shame for hurting her and his wife, tears of loss because just thinking about life without her made his internal organs cramp in distress. |
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When these active muscles are used more intensively, they will at a certain point get tired, seize up and cramp, which goes with a stabbing pain. |
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You might not hear sloshing in your stomach, but you might cramp or feel nauseated instead. |
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Focal dystonias include writer's cramp, orofaciomandibular dystonia, and torticollis. |
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The institute included a seminar about old-school writer's cramp and the ergonomic use of computers. |
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This is so that I will not get writer's cramp trying to take notes as you talk. |
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A properly fitting shoe shouldn t touch the tips of your toes, cramp the width of your foot or slip off the back of your heel. |
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They are not there to spy on you or cramp your style, but to give advice and practical help. |
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To improve the blood circulation and prevent the appearance of cramp, Compex has a specific stimulation programme. |
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It differs from primary dysmenorrheal pain, which is more cramp like and concentrated in the abdominal midline. |
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This kind of pain feels severe and constant and is sometimes described as a burning or pulling feeling or a cramp. |
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By contrast, Holland actually only had six players still properly on their feet at the end of the game, the others were plagued by cramp. |
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Diarrhoea and constipation, occasionally alternating, are generally accompanied by bloating and a sensation of discomfort or abdominal cramp. |
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Wherever we allow waste we narrow our chances for success and we cramp our scope for enjoyment of what life offers us. |
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If Prince Harry is back on again with Chelsy Davy, he's not letting it cramp his style. |
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I lost my balance and rhythm and had terrible cramp until the end of the race. |
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You start feeling a bit chilly and shivery and the next thing your body starts to shut down, you get cramp, your muscles can't work and you can't swim. |
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Swinging mightily but coming up nearly empty, Sierra topped a ball which sputtered down the third base line, when Rivera was hit with yet another brain cramp. |
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What if his muscles started to cramp due to a lack of warm-up exercise? |
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I was just amazed the poor boy didn't get wanker's cramp having to count out fifteen thousand pounds in cash. |
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He looks to be through on goal, but has the ball taken off his toe by a block from Halliche, who is so stricken with cramp he can't even kick it away. |
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Bastian Schweinsteiger of Germany receives treatment for cramp. |
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A bizarre, implausible but widespread mass cramp in typing fingers? |
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Updated at 11.11pm BST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.10pm BST23 10 ET13: Bastian Schweinsteiger shows his human side, retreating to the touchline with cramp. |
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Many people suffer from cramp in the calf muscles, which can appear spontaneously during rest at night or as a result of prolonged muscular effort. |
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He replaced McNair because of cramp in the last few minutes, and was essentially meat in the room. |
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Pointe shoes contain a hard resin block in the toe box, which can cramp and crush the toes, causing blisters, corns and split toe nails. |
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It feels like a painful cramp in your whole pelvic area. |
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This unity of style doesn't cramp your creative freedom. |
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Henry James, after he suffered an attack of writer's cramp, began to dictate to a typist. |
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So I'm encouraged on the one hand that there seems to be greater public sensitivity and awareness to security and defence issues, but there's still this reluctance, this terminal writer's cramp, to actually pay for it. |
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It is a chronic phenomenon, something like intermittent claudication, which is cramp in the calf muscle coming on after walking a certain distance in patients with peripheral obstructive arterial disease. |
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Don't think too fast at the start. You can get a brain cramp, which is how marathon ruminations are lost. |
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Tendonitis is the most prevalent condition caused by RSI but it also includes better-known conditions such as writer's cramp and tennis elbow. |
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He calls for somebody to give him a stretch and rid him of his cramp. |
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Subthreshold lowfrequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the premotor cortex modulates writer's cramp. |
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Christmas dividend checks and checks covering Christmas presents to his employees were always signed by him.... He had writer's cramp by the time he finished. |
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Symptoms are often mixed with those of the underlying illness but may include cardiac dysrhythmias, confusion, convulsions, muscle cramp and tetany. |
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The youngsters were delighted to meet and talk to very friendly professional footballers who again risked writer's cramp with the number of autographs they signed. |
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The new regulations may cramp the company's financial growth. |
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When you have a leg cramp, relax the muscle through gentle massage, or heat the muscle with a warm towel or hot water bottle. |
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When I recovered, I headed at a fast breaststroke towards the side, but I got a side cramp. |
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Increasingly the stop start nature of the match, created by the numerous stoppages for cramp, made extra time seem inevitable. |
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The movie turns into a mindless gorefest, the genius character suddenly suffers a cataclysmic brain cramp, and the action begins to resemble Alien light. |
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