Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation Blog

Thank You! RLS Awareness Day 2017 was one of our most successful awareness campaigns yet. Hundreds of you donated, shared your RLS stories with us and your communities, and echoed to others that they are not alone. Not to mention that we made our $25K "Challenge for the Cure" match! Some well-deserved thanks are in order for RLS...

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RLS: A Real Lousy Syndrome A Poem by Jim Healey If you're a victim of RLS I know you'll connect with this rhyme. Some say the darn thing's a bother I say the darn thing's a crime. My mother had legs that misbehaved She never knew what was wrong. “It's like little men with knives,” she said “Tormenting...

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Ten Ways to Become an RLS Awareness Ambassador On Saturday, September 23, the RLS Foundation will join communities across the globe to celebrate RLS Awareness Day 2017. Held on the birth date of Professor Karl-Axel Ekbom, the Swedish neurologist who first described restless legs syndrome in 1945, Awareness Day is an opportunity to share key information about RLS...

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My SIBO Story Do certain foods seem to trigger your RLS? Or, when you experience bloating or abdominal fullness, do these conditions seem to exacerbate your RLS? If so, read on. I finally made the connection between my restless legs and many years of (undiagnosed) Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). I heard from Caroline Chamales, the RLS Foundation support...

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Foundation Funds Study on Use of Opioids for RLS An excerpt from the Summer 2017 edition of NightWalkers, the Foundation's quarterly magazine The RLS Foundation has awarded a $144,000 grant to John Winkelman, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School, for a pilot study on the use of opioids to treat RLS. The two-year project is part of broader...

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