Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation Blog

A Wonderful Place to Be Submitted by: Ann Battenfield, discussion board moderator for the RLS Foundation It is 3:10 AM. I wanted to go to sleep hours ago. I wonder what went wrong. I am relatively sure I took my medication correctly, but for some reason the sensations and urge to move are reluctant to stop. As they...

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RLS Foundation Forges Relationship with UT School of Nursing On May 17, Executive Director Karla Dzienkowski, RN, BSN, spoke at The University of Texas at Austin's School of Nursing, her own alumni. The school was recently awarded a grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study restless legs syndrome as a potential cause of restlessness in...

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Where to Find Research Listings and How to Sign Up Clinical trials are research studies that enlist volunteers to investigate specific health questions. When carefully conducted, they are the fastest and safest way to find treatments that actually work for people. While the RLS Foundation does not conduct clinical trials, we do list RLS clinical trial opportunities on...

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May 8, 2017 Causes and Consequences of Sleep Deprivation in American Teenagers By Kris Schanilec An excerpt from the Fall 2016 edition of NightWalkers, the Foundation's quarterly magazine. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) launched the “Sleep Recharges You” campaign in August 2016 to help teens and families learn the facts about sleep, the benefits it brings...

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May 2, 2017 Research Funded by RLS Foundation is Getting Results By Kris Schanilec An excerpt from the Winter 2017 edition of NightWalkers, the Foundation's quarterly magazine. From the seeds of an RLS Foundation grant, researcher Byron Jones, PhD, has grown a genetic reference population of mice that is poised to serve as an animal model for RLS...

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