Restless Legs Syndrome - The Non-Drug Therapy

What you can do yourself, with or without medication. Exercise, stretching, massage, acupuncture, heat and cold, vibration devices, nerve stimulation: countless non-drug recommendations circulate about restless legs syndrome. Very few of them have actually been studied. This volume gives an honest account of every approach. It shows what the trials support and how strong they are, what rests on experience alone, and where a method has not been researched yet. Every chapter on an approach opens with an evidence summary that includes the view of the American sleep medicine guideline of 2025. Where a study was carried out in healthy volunteers or in a different condition, it says so, rather than quietly transferring the result to RLS. It ends not with a catalogue of advice but with a method: how to assemble a programme from the approaches that suit you, and how to test over a few weeks whether it actually works for you. WHAT IS IN THE BOOK- Exercise and training: what has genuinely been studied, and at what dose- Stretching, yoga and Pilates- Sleep hygiene and the daily habits that make the difference in the evening- Massage, acupressure, heat, cold and compression- Acupuncture and electroacupuncture- TENS, TOMAC, vibration and further stimulation methods- Spinal cord stimulation and direct current stimulation: where matters stand- Building a personal programme, with an exercise and observation diary WHO THIS BOOK IS FORFor patients with mild to moderate symptoms who would rather try without medication first, for anyone wanting to add to an existing treatment, and for everyone who wants to know which of the many recommendations online hold up to scrutiny. ABOUT THE SERIESVolume 5 of 52 in the book series on restless legs syndrome, part 'Treatment'. Every volume can be read on its own. The statements in this volume rest on 148 professional sources, each one listed individually in the reference section.