Restless Legs Awareness Day

Name: Restless Legs Awareness Day
Start: 2021-09-23T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-09-23T23:59:59+00:00

September 23, 2021

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When: September 23	Where: Everywhere	First occurrence: 2012?
September 23 is the birthday of the Swedish neurologist professor Karl-Axel Ekbom who wrote the first doctoral thesis on Restless Legs Syndrome in 1945
Restless Legs Syndrome is also called Willis-Ekbom disease because the first person to describe RLS was Sir Thomas Willis in the year 1672. Thus, both the names of Sir Thomas Willis and Professor Karl-Axel Ekbom are included in the name of the disease for their combined efforts. Even though they lived centuries apart, writing down the knowledge was the bridge to new insights.

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Date:: September 23, 2021
Event Categories:: Awareness, Health
Event Tags:: awareness, health, September; https://wildcalendar.com/events/restless-legs-awareness-day/