1 When the acute pain is gone, begin stretching the muscle moderately with passive range of motion stretching. Gently pull your foot and toes up with legs straight if possible to stretch the calf muscle. Hold for 10 seconds and repeat 5 to 10 times.  Progressive Calf Stretching Exercises.
Alpha waves close your mind for distraction, but not continuously, research suggests. FULL STORY. Alpha waves were long ignored, but gained interest of brain researchers recently. Electrical activity of groups of brain cells results in brain waves with different amplitudes. The so-called alpha wave, a slow brain wave with a cycle of 100 milliseconds, seems to play a key role in suppressing irrelevant brain activity.
Normal Occurrence of Alpha Waves. 1  Occipital Alpha is the dominant rhythm in relaxed wakefulness in 85% of healthy adults with closed eyes (Occipital = Occipital lobe at the back of the head). 2  Alpha activity may spread to temporals and parietals in some people and this is considered normal. 85% of adults have a resting Alpha rhythm between 9.5-10.5 Hz. Some people have Alpha variants (slower or faster) that are generally considered normal if localized to the occipitals & attenuating (diminishing) with eye opening.