This article was or is on the Front Page! Keep Up The Good Work! Charles Ingalls, or Pa, was born January 10, 1836 in Cuba, New York. He is the husband of Caroline Ingalls and the father of Mary, Laura, Carrie, Charles Jr. and Grace; as well as the adoptive father of Albert Quinn, and James and Cassandra Cooper. He is also the patriarch of the Ingalls family.
The pain in one of the calves eventually subsided, but the pain in the other continued. One website after another said generally the same thing: A deep vein thrombosis, or blood clot, can closely resemble a leg cramp or a muscle tear. My stomach clenched.
The calf is a common site for both muscle cramps and blood clots. Despite their propensity to affect the calf, blood clots and muscle cramps share little else in common. Calf cramps and blood clots differ with respect to symptoms, risk factors, causes, evolution, treatment and prognosis. Although calf cramps and blood clots both cause lower leg pain, the two conditions are usually easy to distinguish from one another.