Restless Legs Syndrome in Childhood

Diagnostic criteria of restless legs syndrome were set up in 1995 by the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (IRLSSG). With regard to new scientific knowledge and increasing clinical experience, diagnostic criteria have been revised in a consensus workshop. Participants of the workshop considered as an important topic the development of new diagnostic criteria for special populations: 1) for children and 2) for the cognitively impaired elderly. The common characteristic of both groups is their difficulty to express and formulate adequately subjective symptoms and therefore considerably impeding the…