Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Healthy Sleep

Sleeping soundly again - at last?

Nine out of ten people with restless legs syndrome struggle to fall asleep or to stay asleep. Disturbed sleep is the main burden of the condition, and it is the reason most patients seek help at all. This volume takes it seriously: as a reason for treatment, not as a fate.

Step by step it explains what RLS does to the body at night, how disturbed sleep is assessed - from the consultation to the sleep laboratory - and what brings it back: from sleep hygiene through warmth, movement and devices to the medicines of the 2024 and 2025 guidelines.

Every recommendation comes with a statement of how certain the knowledge behind it is. The volume ends with a practical road map for the evening and a chapter on the day after: how to cope with tiredness while the nights are not yet better.

WHAT IS IN THE BOOK

- What happens during the night: sleep under RLS

- The leg movements of the night, what they mean and what they do not

- The day after: tiredness, concentration, mood

- How it is established that RLS is disturbing your sleep

- Other sleep disorders and the commonest confusions

- The stepped plan by which sleep is won back

- When two disorders come together: RLS and sleep apnoea

- A practical road map for the evening and the night

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

For patients whose heaviest burden is the night, for partners who live through how broken these nights are, and for anyone who wants to aim their treatment specifically at sleep.

ABOUT THE SERIES

Volume 14 of 52 in the book series on restless legs syndrome, part "Sleep". Every volume can be read on its own. The statements in this volume rest on 163 professional sources, each one listed individually in the reference section.