Leg cramps in women in their 50s should be treated with general therapy, medication, physical therapy and surgery according to the cause. Usually, it is considered to be related to calcium deficiency, strenuous activities and lumbar disc herniation. 1. Calcium deficiency: It occurs in middle-aged and elderly people, low calcium can cause increased nerve excitability, resulting in muscle tension, spasm, cramps will last for a day or a few days, and the leg muscles can be combined with soreness or tingling. Calcium carbonate, vitamin D3 and other medications can be taken orally. At the same time, you should eat more shrimp, tofu, milk and other calcium-rich foods as well as more sunshine, to avoid the legs catching cold. 2. Strenuous activities: such as swimming, hiking, long-distance running and other strenuous exercise can occur leg cramps, cramps can be gradually relieved by giving rest, braking, hot compresses and other ways. 3. Lumbar intervertebral disc herniation: Lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration and protrusion, causing the nerve root of the lower limbs to be compressed, and there may be numbness of the legs and cramps. You should pay attention to rest, can take oral ibuprofen and other pain medication, as well as methylcobalamin and other nutritive nerve medication, but also under the guidance of professionals in the lumbar spine traction, massage and other physical therapy. If conservative treatment is ineffective and symptoms are severe, minimally invasive nucleus pulposus removal can be performed. Women in their 50s may also have other causes of leg cramps, such as lower extremity vascular disease, if rest does not relieve, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to determine the cause of the disease, follow the doctor’s instructions to give targeted treatment or treatment, do not take their own medication.