Talk:Charley horse

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[edit] can we get a laymans explanation

maybe have a technical section and a laymans explanation

Layman's explanation:

Excuse my ignorance, but is all this medical gobbldegook merely describing a corked thigh?

A corkie? Is THAT all this is?

I imagine the questioner is not American. This sounds like another name for what in years past was called a "charley horse" in the US. Sfahey 03:00, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I would also like to see this article in less technical terms. Maybe something that wasn't copied from About.com? PrometheusX303 01:04, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Before making such accusations of plagiarism, consider the alternative: your alleged "source," one of many sites who pilfer wiki-work, is the plagiarist here, .Sfahey 15:06, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

MY apologies, Sfahey. I may have been a bit hasty with that. I can see that this article was not directly copied, but seems to be written originally. AAMOF, I looked at the copyright info, and either it wasn't there before, or I failed to see this: This is the "GNU Free Documentation License" reference article from the English Wikipedia I will lean towards the latter. PrometheusX303 22:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] answerbag.com link

The link to answerbag.com seems not very reputable. What does it add to the article? It only seems to be a site that lets people write in their answers to questions -- not up to Wikipedia's standards, seemingly. I will be bold and remove the link. -Phoenixrod 08:05, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm with you on this one. Read the "answers" to this question. Two are correct, but the "top answer" is wrong. PrometheusX303 13:16, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] dead leg?

i arrived at this article via a redirect from dead leg; personally, i feel a dead leg has more in common with pins and needles than a charley horse. a dead leg is characterised by reduced or no feeling in the leg, as perhaps caused by a pinched nerve from crossed legs, or by a punch in the correct place upon the thigh; i associate a charley horse on the other hand with pain as opposed to numbness. --Kaini 04:40, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I redirected dead leg. When someone says their leg (or arm) is "dead" or "asleep", they usually mean no feeling. A charley horse causes great pain. Prometheus^-X303- 07:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

What is in question here is not "my leg went dead", but the noun phrase "dead leg". In the US, coaches and trainers ("physios") use the latter to refer to the very painful thigh bruise we used to call a "charley horse" and the Brits call a "corkie".

Hmm. I'd never heard that term before. Maybe the redirect should be changed, and at this article should have something like for numbness in the extremities, see Paresthesia? Prometheus^-X303- 22:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)