Restless Leg Syndrome (What Causes Restless Legs?)

Recently, some netizens posted a discussion about “how painful are restless legs”. Some of them commented that they didn’t know when they were going to get sick or when the symptoms would go away after having the disease. If they attack at night, they will have a high probability of insomnia. During restless legs attacks, there is significant discomfort in the legs. You have to stretch hard or twist back and forth or you will feel uncomfortable. A group of netizens who “watch and eat melons” also expressed curiosity about this disease: “There is still this disease.” So what is “restless legs”? What causes it? is it serious? Come see it today.

What are “restless legs”?

Restless legs, also known as restless legs, may not be familiar to everyone at first glance, but according to foreign survey data, its incidence rate is about 1%-10%; in my country, restless legs The incidence rate of the disease is about 1.2%-5%, among which the middle-aged and elderly people are more common.

Agitated leg syndrome is unbearable discomfort deep in the patient’s legs at rest, which can be temporarily relieved by exercise and massage. Patients often complain of feeling a tearing, wriggling, tingling, burning, pain, itching sensation deep in the lower extremities, making them desperate to move and causing them to be hyperactive. Generally, symptoms become more intense at night while lying in bed and peak after midnight. Patients are forced to kick their legs, move their joints or stretch their legs. Patients often describe “there is no comfortable place to put their legs.” Severe patients have to get up and continue walking to relieve. As a result, many patients suffer from nocturnal sleep disturbances, resulting in severe daytime sleepiness and decreased work capacity.

What causes the legs to fail?

Chinese medicine believes that restless legs and feet are caused by insufficient qi and blood, insufficient liver and kidney, blood stasis blocking collaterals, cold damp blocking collaterals, damp heat betting, or exogenous wind and cold, endless evil energy, and blocked veins. , and severe restless legs can be classified as “spasms” in Chinese medicine.

In Western medicine, restless legs are a disease of the central nervous system, which requires neurology. At present, the specific etiology of restless legs is not clear, but clinically restless legs are generally divided into primary and secondary. Patients with primary restless legs often have a family history. Because the condition is genetically linked, it is difficult to treat. Secondary restless legs can be caused by iron deficiency anemia, pregnancy or parturient, advanced renal disease, rheumatic disease, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, hereditary motor sensory neuropathy type II, spinocerebellar ataxia type I/II, friends and resource *** adjustments, caused by multiple sclerosis. If the patient actively treats the primary disease, the symptoms of restless legs can be relieved to a certain extent.