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Neurological picture
Periodic limb movement syndrome
  1. A Knoblauch,
  2. JD Leuppi
  1. Center for Sleep Medicine and Home Ventilation, Kantonsspital, St Gallen, Switzerland
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr A Knoblauch, Pulmonary Department and center for Sleep Medicine, Kantonsspital St Gallen, Switzerland;
 anknoblauch{at}kssg.ch

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.73.4.428

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    Patients with periodic limb movement syndrome (PLMS) experience a series of involuntary leg movements at sleep onset and during sleep. The movements are rhythmic or jerky and range from simple extension of the big toe to movement of the whole leg, with flexion of the knee and hip. They generally occur …

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