Restless Legs Keeping You Awake at Night?

Your restless legs can keep you up at night. It can cause difficulty in falling asleep or staying asleep. You may feel the urge to get out of bed to stretch or move your legs. These sensations most often happen in your legs, but they can also affect your arms or your entire body. You may experience feelings of aching, throbbing, burning, pulling, tugging, crawling and itching, Sensations can happen on one side of your body, but more commonly affect both sides equally, like both legs. These sensations get worse when you’re resting. Relief of discomfort, at least temporarily, when you move your legs. Twitchy legs or leg jerks mostly happen in the evening and during sleep. Restless legs can cause you to feel fatigue or daytime sleepiness. Behavior or mood changes can occur. It can lead to difficulty paying attention, remembering things or concentrating. In advanced cases, it can also lead to depression or anxiety. According to medical researchers, there are 3 main causes of restless leg. Just about every medical researcher studying restless legs agrees that one of the most common factors affecting all patients is that their dopamine-receptors aren’t functioning properly. And dopamine receptors are so important. They’re often called the “feel good” chemicals and their primary function is sending messages that control muscle movement. The second reason is poor iron metabolism. Some doctors will test your iron levels. But the trouble is this test only checks the amount of iron in the blood. However, your restless legs has nothing to do with the amount of iron in your blood. But it has everything to do with low iron levels in your brain. The third cause is inflammation. This is the biggest underlying cause beneath restless legs. In fact, the most recent studies from 2016 and 2017 have linked low-dopamine activity AND low-iron levels in the brain directly to long term inflammation in restless legs patients. According to this research, inflammation causes a chain of events to happen in the body which first leads to poor iron metabolism and eventually, a malfunction of dopamine receptors in restless leg patients. When your body is chronically inflamed, all of your extra energy is being used up by your immune system. At HijamaEnergetics, we only use natural healing modalities such as Hijama, herbs, nutritional, microcurrent therapy and bio-energetic remedies to overcome your restless leg discomfort. Contact us today to see how we can help you find relief from restless leg syndrome.