Restless Legs Syndrome
Restless Legs Syndrome
I. History of Disorder
Restless legs syndrome is a neurological disorder that has been studied for hundreds of years. The earliest documentation of the syndrome was recorded nearly 400 years ago by Thomas Willis, a 17th century English physician who served King Charles II. Willis described cases of people having trouble sleeping because of constant contractions of tendons in the legs. Soreness resulted from these contractions and would hinder sleep for days at a time. The condition he was describing was almost positively Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), but little was known about it at the time. There were other accounts of the disease throughout the centuries and in 1923 Hermann Oppenheim discovered it to be a neurological disorder. But it wasn’t until 1944 that Professor Karl-Axel Ekbom gave the disease its current name and studied it in greater detail. RLS is also commonly known in the medical world as “Ekbom disease” because of his efforts and......
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