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The residents of Çatalhöyük appear to have copied the cramped passages of natural caves.

Instead, a rival theory blaming cramps on “altered neuromuscular control” first proposed in the 1990s by Martin Schwellnus, a sports physician at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, has been gaining support.

Schwellnus himself warned that muscle cramps are a complex phenomenon with many different contributing factors, so we shouldn’t expect a simple solution.

What we’re left with is a search for factors we can control that might influence cramp risk.

This punctures the idea that cramps are a punishment for bad pacing.

Cast: Tyler Christopher, Isabella Cramp, Jami Gertz, Tim Jo, Toks Olagundoye, Simon Templeman, Lenny Venito.

If Prince Harry is back on again with Chelsy Davy, he's not letting it cramp his style.

Madame Ratignolle begged Robert to accompany her to the house; she complained of cramp in her limbs and stiffness of the joints.

Jack nodded with a strange, twisted little smile, as if he were suffering from cramp in the legs.

“Ah, my dear, you careless young people make jokes of things that would fret us old ones to fiddle-strings,” reproved Mrs. Cramp.

The darkness and chill began to tell upon me, and an agonising cramp contracted my legs.

When the cramp left me, I cast myself off again, and dropped below the ledge.

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On this page you'll find 129 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cramp, such as: ache, constipation, contraction, convulsion, pain, and stiffness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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