We find using beef gelatin daily in our hot lemon ginger drinks keeps our pain and spasms away - we don't have anything as severe as Paul - but we can get pretty tight and achy if we don't have a few of those a day - or gelatin in soups, etc. A few times throughout the day seems to work better than once. And we go through a lot of fresh ginger, we usually keep a pot of it and water warming on the stove.
