Exploring the Role of Magnesium in Rest Cramps

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study sets out to show whether infusions of magnesium can lessen the frequency of rest cramps and to determine whether rest cramp sufferers have a deficiency in magnesium.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of British Columbia
• Collaborator: Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
• Treatments: Magnesium Sulfate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ≥2 leg or foot cramps per week in a 4 week run-in diary

Exclusion Criteria:

• eGFR<50

• Neurologic disease

• Pregnancy

• Heart block

• Bradyarhythmia without pacemaker

• Digoxin use

• Liver disease

• Addison's disease

• History of MI

• CHF

• Absence of detectable reflexes