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Restless legs syndrome: what causes it and how to treat it

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The syndrome causes an uncomfortable, prickly feeling in the legs and is more common than most people think. (PHOTO: Gallo Images/Getty Images)
The syndrome causes an uncomfortable, prickly feeling in the legs and is more common than most people think. (PHOTO: Gallo Images/Getty Images)

It was as if her legs had a will of their own. Every day at about 5 in the afternoon the torment would start.

“It was like something was crawling under my skin, and then it would pull and tug – I had no control over it,” Maria van der Wath says.

“Particularly in my left leg,” she says.

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