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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Questionnaire
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    What does my score say - and what does it not? For restless legs syndrome there is no blood test and no image. There are questions, and from them instruments have been developed that support diagnosis, measure severity and shape prescriptions and prevalence figures. Anyone who does not understand them is led astray by them. This volume says which instrument is for what. It expl...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS, PLMS, and PLMD
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    The legs that carry on through the night. A number appears on the sleep study report: the PLM index. One in three middle-aged adults is above the usual threshold, and six in ten older men. And hardly anyone explains what it means. This volume separates three things that are constantly confused: restless legs syndrome as a disease, periodic limb movements as a measurement, and p...
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    45,87 €

  • Restless Legs Syndrome - The Mimics
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    Answering yes to four questions is not yet a diagnosis. Cramps, nerve damage, veins, joints, medicines and the plain impatience of sitting still meet the same four criteria as restless legs syndrome. In one family study, 16 in 100 people who demonstrably did not have RLS did exactly that. This volume takes the twelve most important mimics apart one by one and gives for each the...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - Augmentation
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    When the medication itself makes the illness worse. It is the most treacherous complication of RLS treatment. Where a dopamine drug helped well at first, the symptoms become worse over time than they ever were: they start earlier in the day, spread to the arms, return more quickly. And the obvious response, raising the dose, makes exactly that worse. The new edition first expla...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - Drug Treatment
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    Understanding medication - and deciding together. Not one medication was developed specifically for restless legs syndrome. They all come from other fields of medicine: from epilepsy, from Parkinson’s disease, from pain management. That makes it all the more important to know what they genuinely achieve and what they do not. This is the largest volume of the series. It discusse...
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    46,38 €

  • Restless Legs Syndrome - The Variants
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    When the restlessness is not in the legs. Abdomen, back, arms, head, genital area: restless legs syndrome can announce itself anywhere in the body. Those affected wait an average of seven to fifteen years for the right diagnosis, in individual cases half a lifetime - because nobody thinks of this condition while the legs stay quiet. This volume describes the five best-known var...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - Iron, Ferritin, and Transferrin Saturation
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    The ferritin value that counts differently in RLS. Ferritin, transferrin saturation, hepcidin: in restless legs syndrome these laboratory values mean something different from what they mean elsewhere in medicine. A result that passes as normal everywhere else can already call for treatment here, and this is often overlooked. This volume explains the brain’s iron metabolism, sho...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Genetics
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    What runs in the family - and what does not. 'My mother had it too.' That sentence is spoken in almost every consultation, and the same questions always follow. Did I inherit this? Will I pass it on? Can it be tested for? And if it is in the genes, is there anything to be done at all? This volume answers them in turn. It explains why restless legs syndrome is clearly heritable ...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - The Non-Drug Therapy
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    What you can do yourself, with or without medication. Exercise, stretching, massage, acupuncture, heat and cold, vibration devices, nerve stimulation: countless non-drug recommendations circulate about restless legs syndrome. Very few of them have actually been studied. This volume gives an honest account of every approach. It shows what the trials support and how strong they a...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - A Guide for Patients with RLS
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    When the body comes to rest and the legs do not. No sooner does the evening grow quiet than a dragging begins in the legs, a crawling, an urge that cannot be ignored. Between five and ten people in every hundred know this feeling. Years often pass before the right diagnosis is made, and along the way many are told it is their circulation, their nerves or simply their age. This ...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - Understanding the Pathophysiology
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    Why in the evening of all times - and what is happening in the brain? In the cerebrospinal fluid of patients the iron storage value stands at 1.11 instead of 3.50. In the blood the same difference cannot be measured at all. And the most widespread explanation of the condition is probably the wrong way round: the measurements point not to too little dopamine, but to a surplus. T...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - Making the Right Diagnosis
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    Do I even have this - and how would anyone tell? There is no blood test, no image and no measurement that proves restless legs syndrome on its own. The diagnosis is clinical and rests on five criteria that a doctor assesses. In one family study, 16% of people judged not to have the condition still met the four old criteria, which is why a fifth criterion, the careful exclusion ...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Anxiety
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    The body sounds the alarm, and nobody asks why. 'I think mine is nerves.' The sentence comes up regularly in the consulting room, sometimes from the patient, sometimes from the doctor, and it usually closes the matter. A sedative follows, or an antidepressant, or the advice to brood less. Yet that very sentence can stand in the way of the treatment that would have helped. Anxie...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Diabetes
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    Two conditions, one pair of legs. 'My legs are restless in the evening, I cannot stay lying down.' In diabetes clinics the answer is often the same: that is the nerve damage from the sugar. The patient then gets nothing, or a painkiller. Yet two conditions affect the same legs at the same hours of the day, sound almost identical in patients’ descriptions, often occur together, ...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Cardiovascular Disease
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    A hundred pressure spikes in a single night. Periodic leg movements in sleep raise blood pressure briefly, by 22 millimetres of mercury for selected movements in a small study and by 12 on average across all movements in a larger one. In one night, 89 people with restless legs had on average 788 such rises, measured beat by beat. Whether heart disease follows from it is not pro...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Cancer
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    Restless legs during cancer treatment - often missed, often treatable. About one in five people on chemotherapy screens positive for restless legs. It is rarely asked about, because during cancer treatment an explanation is usually already at hand for every restless night. Iron values are measured regularly, but in cancer they are hard to read. This volume shows by what routes ...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Metabolic Diseases
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    Five values. Not fourteen. Obesity, thyroid, liver, gut, vitamin D, magnesium: every one of these has been studied in restless legs syndrome, and almost none of them leads to a treatment. That is precisely why this volume is above all a sorting: which laboratory value is worth having and which merely costs money and attention. One exception stands out. In coeliac disease 31 out...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Exercise
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    Movement helps instantly. Exercise is still difficult. Getting up and walking is the only measure that works within seconds, and it is even part of the diagnosis. Yet one in four patients reports that exercise makes their symptoms worse and nothing else. Both experiences are correct, and this volume explains why. It separates what is constantly confused: relief in the moment an...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Nutrition
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    Can I calm my legs through what I eat? Iron, vitamins, coffee, superfoods, fasting: many promises circulate about nutrition in restless legs syndrome, and only some of them are supported by evidence. This volume carefully separates the one from the other and says, for every recommendation, how certain the knowledge behind it is. Alongside the scientific studies, the new edition...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Overactive Bladder Syndrome
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    Who wakes me at two - the bladder or the legs? Anyone who gets up several times a night is given a bladder diagnosis, because that is the obvious one. Whether they also get up because their legs will not let them lie still is asked by nobody. And the difference determines which prescription is right. This volume gives the four questions with which the two can be separated withi...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Dementia
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    Two questions that are constantly confused, answered one at a time. Will I become demented because I have restless legs? Many people who have slept badly for years notice that names escape them, then read a headline about sleep and dementia and draw their own conclusion. At the other end of the same subject stands a daughter whose father has Alzheimer’s disease and gets up ever...
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    45,82 €

  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Fibromyalgia
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    It is not pain that makes the legs restless. People with fibromyalgia hurt all over, including in the legs, so of course they cannot keep still in the evening. That objection comes early, and it deserves to be taken seriously. It has also been refuted. In a synthesis of 17 studies, restless legs syndrome was found in 38.1 per cent of people with fibromyalgia and in 4.4 per cent...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Depression, Including Suicide
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    When the nights take the mind with them. There is a sentence that is almost never spoken in a restless legs consultation: sometimes I don’t want to go on. People who see a doctor about their legs talk about tingling, dragging and sleepless nights, not about what years of such nights do to a person. The neurologist asks about the legs, the GP about the mood, and the patient sits...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Acupuncture/Acupressure
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    Two studies. One sham needle. In restless legs syndrome, stimuli from outside do work: movement, cold, pressure. A needle or a thumb on the calf is therefore not an outlandish idea. But here it is unusually hard to measure whether they really work - sham treatment alone improves symptoms by more than twice what counts as perceptible. This volume names every study and assesses t...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Yoga and Qigong
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    Can a yoga class quieten my restless legs? Movement relieves restless legs. That is one of the five diagnostic criteria and the safest statement anyone can make about this condition. Yoga is movement, stretching, breath control and relaxation all at once, it costs little and does little harm. Anyone too exhausted for an evening walk but still able to unroll a mat rightly asks w...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Mental Engagement
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    When the mind is occupied, the legs grow quieter. One in three patients knows this from experience, and since 2023 it has been measured: during a cognitive task the symptoms recede, while without a task they keep rising. An everyday observation thereby becomes a measure that can be dosed. This volume follows the link between legs and mind in both directions. What does mental en...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Cannabis
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    The strongest effect ever reported - on the weakest kind of evidence there is.Eighteen people worldwide have ever been described as using cannabis for their restless legs. Fourteen of them reported that the symptoms had disappeared completely: a figure no licensed treatment has ever reached. There is no controlled trial.This volume sets out both sides, the remarkable observatio...
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  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Whole-Body Vibration
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    Can a vibrating platform quieten my legs?Movement relieves restless legs, and a vibration platform is marketed as passive movement. Anyone too exhausted for an evening walk rightly asks whether the machine at the gym might help. This volume states the number that appears on no brochure: eleven people worldwide have been studied on one.The far better known vibration trial, moreo...
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    45,70 €

  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Quality of Life
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    It will not kill you. But it is my life.47.9 out of 100 points on the quality-of-life scale, one working day lost every week, and six out of a hundred patients who actually receive a diagnosis after speaking to their doctor: what restless legs syndrome takes from a life has been measured for twenty years - it is simply rarely gathered in one place.This volume gives those figure...
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    45,91 €

  • Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Travel
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    The legs travel by the body clock. Five hours in an aircraft seat are not a change of place for restless legs but a test: sitting still, displaced dosing times, and travel sickness remedies that act precisely where RLS arises. Symptoms reach their maximum between midnight and one in the morning, and the body clock does not reset at the gate. This volume takes the journey apart ...
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