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This combination of Parkinsonism and polytrauma provides a powerful example of how neurodegeneration can be compounded by structural damage, with each element worsening the other.

Muscle cramps are common in the general population, with reported prevalences ranging from 37% to 95%. When frequent or severe, muscle cramps can cause prolonged postcramp soreness and can diminish quality of life by disrupting sleep, limiting physical activity, and provoking anxiety about symptom recurrence.

“Creatine influences the exercise-dependent secretion of neurotransmitters and cytokines like serotonin and dopamine, which improve neural function and promote neuroplasticity.”

Mediterranean diet education combined with 8-hour eating windows produced greater anthropometric improvements than habitual eating patterns, with benefits maintained through 12-month follow-up despite intervention cessation.

“We’ve published several editorials in this past year focused on a 1-year fellowship in a specialty that arguably needs way, way more time, more than 1 year. Are we doing our trainees or even our patients a disservice by continuing that 1-year construct, which is now solidly 30 years old?”

It’s not clear what causes leg cramps. But researchers believe some things can trigger cramps, such as: dehydration, electrolyte imbalances, muscle fatigue.