REM sleep behaviour disorder: a treatable cause of falls in elderly people
| Autor: | Peter A. Cistulli, Raymond S. Schwartz, Litsa Morfis |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Sleep Wake Disorders
Aging medicine.medical_specialty Polysomnography Sleep REM Poison control Context (language use) REM sleep behavior disorder Clonazepam Occupational safety and health Diagnosis Differential Sleep Apnea Syndromes Physical medicine and rehabilitation Risk Factors Injury prevention Humans Medicine Geriatric Assessment Aged medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Eye movement General Medicine medicine.disease Sleep in non-human animals Physical therapy Accidental Falls Female Geriatrics and Gerontology business |
| Zdroj: | Age and Ageing. 26:43-44 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2834 0002-0729 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ageing/26.1.43 |
| Popis: | Reports of falls occurring exclusively at night have usually been in the context of a hospital setting (attempting to climb out of bed or during sleep) rather than in people living at home [1]. We report a case of recurrent falls in an elderly woman, occurring exclusively at night and caused by rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder. In this condition there is a loss of the normal atonia of postural muscles that usually occurs in REM sleep [2]. It results in complex, vigorous, dream-enacting behaviours during REM sleep [3]. These typical behaviours have the potential to cause serious injury at night, particularly from falls. This disorder appears to have been overlooked in the geriatric literature as a potential source of falls and injury at night. |
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