{"id":1494,"date":"2016-03-29T18:07:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T00:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/?page_id=1494"},"modified":"2018-10-14T18:10:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T18:10:58","slug":"periodic-limb-movements-of-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/periodic-limb-movements-of-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Diagnosis:<\/h4>\n<p>Is a polysomnographic diagnosis<br \/>\nPolysomnography:<br \/>\n=or &gt; 15 episodes of periodic, stereotyped jerky movements of legs<br \/>\nEach movement: lasts 0.5-5 seconds in duration<br \/>\nSequences of Movements are separated by 5-90 seconds. Measured from movement onset to movement onset.<br \/>\nThese may occur in normal people and are not significant unless associated with arousals<\/p>\n<h4>Treatment:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Ropinirole (Level A strong evidence)<\/li>\n<li>Pramipexole, rotigotine, cabergoline, or pregabalin (Level B moderate evidence)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Related articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/diseases\/restless-leg-syndrome\/\">Restless leg syndrome<\/a>,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Related articles:<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Winkelman JW, Armstrong MJ, Allen RP, Chaudhuri KR, Ondo W, Trenkwalder C, Zee PC, Gronseth GS, Gloss D, Zesiewicz T. Practice guideline summary: Treatment of restless legs syndrome in adults: Report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology. 2016 Nov 16. pii:.\u00a0PMID:27856776DOI:<a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1212\/WNL.0000000000003388\">10.1212\/WNL.0000000000003388<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diagnosis: Is a polysomnographic diagnosis Polysomnography: =or &gt; 15 episodes of periodic, stereotyped jerky movements of legs Each movement: lasts 0.5-5 seconds in duration Sequences of Movements are separated by 5-90 seconds. Measured from movement onset to movement onset. These may occur in normal people and are not significant unless associated with arousals Treatment: Ropinirole &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/periodic-limb-movements-of-sleep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32],"tags":[23],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71rnx-o6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningneurology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}