Overview

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