Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation Blog

December 22, 2020 RLS, COVID-19 and Our Superpower By Linda Secretan, Secretary, RLS Foundation Board of Directors, and Support Group Leader Does COVID-19 present unique challenges to people with restless legs syndrome? You may have had a quick, almost automatic response to that question. Was it yes or no? As I started to unpack my own answer, I...

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December 10, 2020 The RLS community has lost a giant in the field of Sleep Medicine and RLS research, Dr. Richard P. Allen. Richard P. Allen, PhD, was a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He founded and served as the co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Restless Legs Syndrome, one of the Foundation’s...

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December 9, 2020 Virtual Support via Zoom At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation had to quickly adapt and make changes to some of the ways in which it serves the RLS community. Face-to-face support group meetings were no longer safe, so we decided to try a new a way of meeting using...

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