What are the signs of restless legs? What are the manifestations of restless legs?

Restless legs syndrome is a very common sensorimotor disorder, the main clinical manifestation is the extreme discomfort of both lower limbs in a quiet state at night, forcing the patient to keep moving the lower limbs or walking on the ground, which seriously affects falling asleep and is one of the important causes of insomnia.

As the quality of sleep at night is seriously affected, patients are tired and sleepy during the day, their ability to work is reduced, their concentration is difficult, and their memory is reduced.

Restless legs syndrome is a chronic disease that often dates back more than ten years and is often overlooked or misdiagnosed. Although there is no direct danger to life, it reduces the quality of life of the patient. Some patients with severe symptoms may even have suicidal thoughts.

The main symptom of restless legs syndrome.

The main clinical manifestation is a spontaneous, intolerable abnormal sensation in the lower extremities.

The location of the common occurrence is between the lower calf, knee and ankle, and the location is blurred, and some patients can also have symptoms in the thigh or upper limb. Patients often describe discomfort deep in the muscles and between the bones, and symptoms are usually symmetrical.

Common expressions include: ant crawling or insect bites in the deep lower limbs, itching, pain, stinging, burning, tearing, wriggling, etc. Sometimes patients say "hard to put into words".

Patients have a feeling of urgency to move because of this. Symptoms can also occur when sitting or driving for long periods of time, making the affected person reluctant to travel long distances by plane and to enter theaters for long periods of quiet sit-in.

Symptoms become intense when you are in bed at night and peak around midnight. People are forced to kick, move their joints, or massage their legs. It is often described at the time of presentation as "there is no comfortable place to put your legs".

In severe cases, it is necessary to get up and keep walking, stretching or beating the legs to be relieved.

Eighty percent of patients with restless legs syndrome have periodic limb movements during sleep—a stereotyped, repetitive flexion of the foot that occurs primarily during non-REM sleep and can cause frequent awakenings. As a result, the patient feels that his sleep is intermittent, and he wakes up in the morning without recovering his physical strength, and he is exhausted.

Patients with restless legs syndrome are mainly manifested by abnormal sensations in the deep limbs at rest, such as itching, tingling, ant crawling, burning, etc., which are generally bilaterally symmetrical, and the symptoms of the lower limbs are more obvious. Symptoms appear or worsen at rest, are more pronounced at night, and can peak late at night, and abnormal sensation may be temporarily relieved by moving the limb. Therefore, patients usually have a combination of sleep disorders, which are manifested by inability to fall asleep, tossing and turning, constantly moving, flexing, stretching or massaging the limbs, and even getting out of bed and walking around to relieve abnormal sensations in the limbs.

Most patients respond well to dopa agonists.

Restless legs syndrome is mainly manifested as numbness, pain or indescribable discomfort in one or both legs at night, which requires you to move your legs constantly or massage it to be relieved. Some patients need to get up and move around constantly because of restless leg syndrome, which can affect sleep in severe cases.

1. Abnormal sensation in the lower limbs: patients with restless leg syndrome will have paresthesia in the lower limbs, and there will often be ants crawling or insects crawling on the legs, and occasionally it may cause numbness in the legs.

2. Restless leg movement: Some patients have restless leg syndrome, and in quiet conditions, the legs will also move unconsciously, and at the same time, there will be local tearing pain or burning sensation, and there will generally be symmetrical pain, so that the patient can not work and study normally.

3. Night cramps: Many patients will have different degrees of spasmodic pain when they sleep at night, and during sleep, I will feel the muscles of the lower limbs contract, and there will be different degrees of shaking, resulting in patients not being able to fall asleep normally.

4. Pain in the lower limbs: restless leg syndrome will cause tingling in the legs, especially in the process of daily work, there will be sudden local tingling sensation, resulting in the patient's inability to move normally, if the symptoms are more serious, it will also cause adverse reactions such as night sleep disorders and daytime sleepiness.

Discomfort in the legs (tingling, tingling, tightness, pain) accompanied by uncontrollable body movements. Symptoms occur at rest, mainly at night, and can interfere with falling asleep; The severity of the disease changes at any time (eg, it varies from month to month) and can affect the upper extremities. Symptoms may be partially or completely relieved by certain manipulations of the limbs (eg, rubbing, shaking, stomping, and walking).

No other neurological signs and symptoms.

Restless legs are mainly manifested by the fact that whenever the patient falls asleep at night, there will be an indescribable soreness, numbness, swelling, sleepiness, burning, worming, itching and other uncomfortable feelings in the deep muscles.

Restless legs syndrome is caused by a strong desire to move the legs due to various reasons, and this desire is very strong, and the patient has a feeling of discomfort in any position where the legs are placed. This kind of leg discomfort can be mild or severe, and the patient may only have a soreness and tightness in the legs, and in severe cases, there may be a feeling of ant walking, a pulling sensation, or an unbearable feeling of pain and discomfort. This restless leg syndrome often occurs in the lower extremities, especially the lower legs, and is uncommon in the upper extremities.

It tends to occur at night and worsens at night, and patients are often normal during the day or are normal in an awake state. **Dopamine agonists are used primarily and patients can achieve significant relief.