Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation Blog

Be Visible, Be Heard By Linda Secretan, RLS Foundation Board Member & Support Group Leader An excerpt from the Summer 2016 edition of NightWalkers, the Foundation's quarterly magazine SDRAB. In some ways an appropriately dreary acronym, but hidden within is sunny opportunity. As one of your RLS Foundation board members, I drew the lucky straw when the opportunity...

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The 11th Addition to Our QCC Network On Jan. 15 Massachusetts General Hospital was certified as an RLS Quality Care Center. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, Mass Gen is a nationally-ranked teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School, as well as a biomedical research facility. According to U.S. News & World Report, the hospital is among the highest in the...

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"Growing Pains" - Signs and Symptoms of RLS in Children At the Foundation, we often receive calls from people with restless legs syndrome who first identified their symptoms as young children. Many of them say their children and grandchildren are also plagued with this devastating disease. An estimated 1.5 million children and adolescents in the United States are...

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We Raised $30,000! In  2015 the RLS Foundation decided to allocate the final days of the year to a fundraising challenge - a dollar-for-dollar donation match. This year we surpassed our challenge, thanks to the generosity of our donors in their year-end giving. A group of anonymous donors provided us with an incredible gift - a match of...

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Meet the New SGLs of 2016: The Foundation Welcomes Four Volunteers At the heart of the RLS Foundation community is a network of volunteer support group leaders who give time, knowledge and a compassionate ear to others who struggle with RLS. Roughly 80 individuals across the U.S. and Canada provide support through face-to-face meetings, phone calls and the...

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