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Health & Wellness

Why You Get Leg Cramps at Night, and What Actually Helps

There are few things that get you out of bed faster. A calf that seizes without warning, hard enough that you are standing on the bedroom floor trying to stretch it before you are properly awake. Then it eases, and you get back into bed, and the muscle is tender for the next two days. Night cramps are common, they get more common with age, and most people who have them have never mentioned it to anybody because it seems like a minor thing that happens occasionally.

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Croft Castrell
Headaches

Why You Wake Up With Headaches and a Sore Jaw

Some people are told about it by a dentist, who notices worn teeth. Some are told by a partner, who can hear it. And a great many people never get told at all. They simply wake up most mornings with a dull headache around the temples, a jaw that feels tired, and a vague sense of not having rested properly, and they put it down to stress or sleep or getting older. Night time clenching and grinding is extremely common, most people doing it have no idea, and it produces a recognizable set of symptoms that frequently get attributed to something else.

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Health and Wellness

Before You Buy a Red Light Panel

The home red light market has grown enormously, and it is largely unregulated in terms of what gets claimed. You can spend thirty dollars or three thousand. The marketing language is frequently identical at both ends. And the person selling it has no obligation to tell you whether it is suitable for what you want it for. People ask us about this regularly, usually having already seen an ad and half decided. So here is an honest guide to what actually separates these devices, what to be skeptical of, and whether it is worth your money at all.

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Health & Wellness

What Red Light Therapy Actually Does

Red light therapy has had an unusual journey. For years it sat quietly in clinics under names most people had never heard, including low level laser therapy and photobiomodulation. Then it arrived on social media, got attached to a long list of claims, and became something people buy panels for. Which has left it in an awkward position. There is a legitimate clinical use for it, and there is a great deal of marketing wrapped around it that goes well beyond what anybody can actually support. So here is a straightforward account of what it is, what we use it for, and what it is reasonable to expect.

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Neck/Shoulder Pain

Which Muscles Power Your 20,000 Daily Breaths?

Here’s a number worth sitting with: most adults take somewhere in the region of 20,000 breaths a day. Now here’s the question that follows from it. Which muscles are performing them? If the answer is mainly your diaphragm, that’s a large workload distributed to the muscle designed for it. If a meaningful share of the work is being done by the muscles at the front and side of your neck, those muscles are performing thousands of extra contractions daily — on top of holding your head up, turning it, and stabilizing your shoulder.

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Neck/Shoulder Pain

6 Essential Muscles That Cause Pain Elsewhere

One of the more frustrating features of neck and shoulder pain is that the spot that hurts is frequently not the spot causing it. People spend months rubbing a shoulder, stretching a neck, or icing a headache while the muscle actually generating the symptom sits somewhere they’ve never thought about — and it goes untreated because nobody looked there.
Muscles refer pain in reasonably consistent patterns. Those patterns have been mapped in detail, and knowing them is one of the more useful things a manual therapist brings to an assessment. Here are the six that account for a large share of what walks through the door.

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