BACKGROUND Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common and highly burdensome sleep disorder. While relaxation therapies, including yoga, are often recommended for RLS management, rigorous supporting research is sparse. The goal of this preliminary study was to assess the effects of yoga on RLS symptoms and related outcomes in women with RLS. METHODS Participants were 13 nonsmoking women with mod...

Introduction: Restless leg syndrome (RLS) is a sensory motor disorder. Patients with this syndrome have serious and uncontrollable desire to move their legs, which is mostly due to an uncomfortable feeling intensified when they are motionless. It may be a genetic disorder or secondary to iron deficiency, neurodegenerations, pregnancy, some drugs and severe kidney diseases. Objectives: This stud...

background and objective : restless legs syndrome (rls) is a sensorimotor disorder that causes sleep deprivation. rls is characterized by discomfort in the legs and severe desire to move them during sleep. different prevalence rates about rls are reported in iran. this systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to estimate the prevalence of rls in iran. materials and methods : by searchi...

446 " Things are not always what they seem and the first appearance deceives many… " —Phaedrus by Plato, written 360 BC. A s a young sleep physician in a new field 20 years ago, it was hard not to get caught up in the excitement of periodic limb movements in sleep (PLMS) as an important indicator of poor sleep and the assumption that treatment was warranted to " normalize sleep. " After all, it...

Kalman filter is linear optimal estimator for random signals. We develop state-space RLS that is counterpart of Kalman filter for deterministic signals i.e. there is no process noise but only observation noise. State-space RLS inherits its optimality properties from the standard least squares. It gives excellent tracking performance as compared to existing forms of RLS. A large class of signals...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To explore the profile of patients who visit a sleep center with symptoms that fulfill the four essential criteria for restless legs syndrome (RLS). DESIGN A prospective study. SETTING Outpatients from one sleep disorders clinic in Taiwan. PARTICIPANTS 1,200 consecutive patients visit sleep disorders clinic with any sleep complaints. INTERVENTIONS After completing a hist...

Most research on the association between restless legs syndrome (RLS) and depression has involved cross-sectional data. The objective of the present study was to evaluate this issue prospectively among Nurses' Health Study participants. A total of 56,399 women (mean age = 68 years) who were free of depression symptoms at baseline (2002) were followed until 2008. Physician-diagnosed RLS was self...

BACKGROUND Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a sensorimotor neurological disorder characterized by an irresistible urge to move the legs. It has been reported that RLS patients show cognitive deficits, presumably due to hyperactivity causing loss of attention, or malfunctions in the frontal region resulting from sleep deprivation. However, the mechanism underlying cognitive deficits in RLS patien...

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common condition that is frequently unrecognized, misdiagnosed and poorly managed. It is characterized by uncomfortable sensations deep in the legs developing at rest that compel the person to move; symptoms are worst at night and sleep disturbance is common. RLS occurs in 7%-11% of the population in Western countries, and many such people experience troublesom...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a sleep disorder that frequently occurs in dialysis patients, which disturbs the sleep and reduces the quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine the risk factors for RLS in dialysis patients. METHODS Patients who visited any of four outpatient dialysis clinics between September 2005 and May 2006 were included in this study. ...