Why Do People Kick When Sleeping?

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Do You Kick or Cry Out During Sleep? Have Allergic Rhinitis?

Two new health headlines on sleep offer the following:

 

(1) If you have a sleep disorder called REM sleep behavior disorder, which means that during REM phase of sleep, you have excessive muscle activity like punching/kicking/crying out (instead of the normal lack of muscle tone expected) then you may be at greater risk for neurodegenerative disease.  In fact more than 50% of patients observed to have this sleep disorder, and clinically diagnosed, went on to have a neurodegenrative disease w...

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