Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: calf muscle cramps Message-ID: <1687@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 11:27:00 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1687 Posted: Tue Sep 24 11:27:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 07:27:27 EDT References: <1217@brl-tgr.ARPA> <731@terak.UUCP> Reply-To: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin (DRXAL-RI) ) Distribution: net Organization: USAMC ALMSA, St. Louis, MO Lines: 34 In article <731@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes: > >Ever since I was a kid, I've had occasional calf muscle cramps at night. >For the first few years, I just endured the agony. Then I stumbled onto >a simple cure, which will stop a calf muscle cramp instantly. >Do the unthinkable. Stand up. No, it won't hurt more. The cramp will >go away the instant you put your weight on that leg. >(and, it's *natural* :-) I never even considered *not getting up*! How could you not? But your cure doesn't always work. Oh, *eventually*, after hopping around a while, the cramped muscle will loosen up and massage will finish it off. But it isn't gone "the instant you put your weight on that leg" -- the act of putting weight on it naturally acts to counter the contraction, just like an earlier posting mentioned contracting the counter-acting muscle to reduce a cramping action. But it takes time. Plus, my wish for the chemical instant cure also was to do *something* to punish that damn muscle for insulting me by bothering me, especially for waking me out of a sound sleep just to play its damn stupid games... Remeber: *I* am my mind. My body is my enemy, because it does not exactly and unhesitatingly obey my mind's commands in every instance. That is what the "wholistic" types that insist on joining the mind and body keep forgetting; there are those of us that have no wish to continue enduring the imprisonment of our real selves -- our minds -- by these damn disgusting physical carcasses. We may be willing to put in a minimal amount of effort and attention to maintain the body for now, and to use it to stimulate the mind via the sensory organs, but otherwise we are just marking time until we can either become creatures of energy or at least have a proper mechanical mind-support system that is better than this organic lump we now have to endure. Will Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com