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The timing/duration of symptoms may be continuous, intermittent, and/or positional. This is dependent on the underlying cause of entrapment and the specific nerves involved. For example, pain while sitting is associated with inferior cluneal nerve entrapment, pudendal nerve entrapment, and anococcyeal nerve entrapment. [11] [12] [13]
One being immobilization, by placing the foot in a neutral position with a brace, pressure is relieved from the tibial nerve thus reducing patients pain. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Eversion , inversion , and plantarflexion all can cause compression of the tibial nerve therefore in the neutral position the tibial nerve is less agitated.
Sleep disruption may leave people with RLS sleepy during the day, with low energy, and irritable or depressed. [2] Additionally, many have limb twitching during sleep, a condition known as periodic limb movement disorder. [11] RLS is not the same as habitual foot-tapping or leg-rocking. [12]
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Dystonia [1] is abnormal, sustained, sometimes painful twisting muscle contractions, often affecting the foot and ankle (mainly toe flexion and foot inversion), which often interferes with gait. Scoliosis is abnormal curvature of the spine. [1] Speech and swallowing disturbances: Hypophonia [1] (soft speech).
Periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD) is a sleep disorder where the patient moves limbs involuntarily and periodically during sleep, and has symptoms or problems related to the movement. PLMD should not be confused with restless legs syndrome (RLS), which is characterized by a voluntary response to an urge to move legs due to discomfort.
Many affected individuals also have other sleep related disorders, like sleep apnea. The disorder can be differentially diagnosed into small subcategories, including sleep related bruxism, thumb sucking, hypnagogic foot tremor, and rhythmic sucking, to name a few. [2]
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