Restless Leg Syndrome

Restless leg syndrome (RLS) is a sleep and movement disorder characterized by unpleasant feelings in the legs, which causes an urge to move in order to relieve the symptoms. This leads to difficulty falling sleep. As the result many people with RLS experience chronic insomnia and daytime sleepiness. Only one in five ever get diagnosed due to poor knowledge within the health professionals' in regards to sleep medicine.

RLS in children can be mistaken with growing pains. Even though there in nothing such as growing pain .Growing pains and RLS have shown to be related and not limited to:

• Magnesium insufficiency. Magnesium is required for muscular relaxation. Its level is the lowest at around 3 am
• Spinal misalignment at lumbar region
• Poor cerebellum integration leading to excess lactic acid build up in the muscles
• Poor higher center of the brain integration
• Copper toxicity
• Prolong stress
• Compromised neurological reflexes