Medically reviewed by Mallory Christopherson, DC Key Takeaways Stretching and massaging the sore muscle can help ease a leg ...

Doctors are finally starting to take women's period pain seriously. Some doctors say that period cramps can be just as painful — or more painful — than a heart attack. Severe period pain could be ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Key Takeaways Stomach cramps often result from gas, indigestion, or ...

For many women, severe period cramps can be more than just uncomfortable—they can be debilitating. In today's Daily Dose, Dr. Lacey Anderson addressed a viewer’s question about what to do when painful ...

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For generations, menstrual cramps have been dismissed, minimized or misunderstood. Yet dysmenorrhea — the clinical term for period pain — affects roughly half of menstruating individuals worldwide, ...

Every woman who has completed her adolescence and who isn’t experiencing menopause goes through a monthly round of vaginal bleeding called menstruation. The society shrouds menstruation in secrecy; it ...

But to understand why you get them in the first place, it's helpful to think of the uterus like a huge muscle (because, well, basically it is)-and it gets a pretty big workout during your period.