Did you know that we human beings are like hybrid cars – part of us runs on chemical fuel and part of us runs on electricity? Just like some hybrid cars our chemical fuel constantly runs to turn a generator called the electron transport chain inside our mitochondria to produce electrical energy which is stored […]
Imagine you are laying there in bed all cozy and comfy and you shift your leg or foot a bit when bam, your leg or foot suddendly goes into an intense spasm. What do you do? You try moving the leg around to see if a different position will make the spasm disappear. Sometimes this works, but […]
It is summer again and with Sacramento summers come lots of heat. We have been having a record-breaking heatwave this year all up and down the west coast. Glitches in the Jet Stream high up in the upper atmosphere have created a stagnant high-pressure system that stalled over the west coast for far too long. Crazy temperatures […]
You are laying in bed asleep. It is about 2 in the morning and all of a sudden you are awoken by a sharp stabbing pain in your thigh or foot or maybe even in your forearm and hand. The muscles in the stabbing area are tight as can be and nothing you do seems […]
Over the last couple weeks I have had several patients come in complaining of muscle cramps. The locations were varied, the hand, calf, top of the thigh, arch of the foot, and of course back muscle cramps. This upturn in muscle cramping fits our current weather here in Sacramento right now – hot. We have […]