Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

Since this thread cannot seem to come to a conclusion and since Dr Weinstock is repeatedly cited as "one of the world's greatest exterts on RLS", I decided to use the same tools to investigate him that I would if I saw a citation in my own field of study from someone that I had never heard of befor...

You provided one link to a study here which shows association but not causation, and even the summary is as careful as I've ever seen with "suggests the possibility that RLS may be mediated or affected through [inflammation].". So which 3 studies prove causation? "More will come" is not a valid arg...

Look, I appreciate it that you try to bring something into the forum that you believe should be discussed. But we must be very careful in making sure that people draw the right conclusions. I agree that it's important to reduce inflammation (and find the underlying cause), but it's not at all trivi...

I know the trendy thing is to take horrible drugs that weren't created for RLS in the first place, [...] No one is trying to take your drugs away. I find it fairly offensive that you throw _that_ in my face. You really have no idea how I have suffered from drug side effects (but this is a private m...

So I take it that leads somewhere? After all we're in "Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet". FYI, if we DON'T need something then it's more authority proofs in medicine. I never witnessed such obedience anywhere else, if the bigwig doctor looks at something for 2 seconds and says somethin...

In 2011 Doctors Leonard Weinstock, Arthur Walters and Paisit Paueksakon published a scientific paper called "Restless Legs Syndrome: Theoretical Roles of Inflammatory and Immune Mechanisms." This was a breakthrough study that discovered that Restless Legs Syndrome had a higher prevalence in subjects...

Because I had never seen Dr Auerbach's name mentioned before, I did some digging. His only publication on RLS is the one that is cited at the end of the editorial that your link points to. That publication was co-written with Dr Walters at Vanderbilt, who is a well known RLS doctor/researcher. Dr. ...

Dr. Sanford Auerbach is a board certified neurologist and a board certified sleep specialist. For a period of time, Dr. Auerbach devoted part of his efforts to neurorehabilitation and managed the brain injury unit at Braintree Hospital, in addition to developing a clinical program for Alzheimer’s di...

I found this on researchgate.net: Original article: Use of Potassium Citrate in Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS). Choudhury Wahidur Rouf , Choudhury Mizanur Rouf, Md Burhan Uddin, Abu Yousuf Md. Nazim Uddin 1. Associate Professor & Head, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Jalalabad Ragib-Rabey...

Here is another study that investigated the possible link between Restless Legs Syndrome and inflammation. Their research lead to the conclusion that there is a link. Side note. Someone on this board suggested that I start to include all the data instead of just the conclusion. I'm going to continue...

Although your personal doctor may not be familiar with the causes of RLS, that does not mean that the causes are not known. A deficiency of iron in the subtantia nigra portion of the brain has long been known to be a cause of RLS. What is not known and probably varies between individuals is why thi...

Researchers are now consciously looking to confirm the link between inflammation and Restless Legs Syndrome. This is great news for everyone. ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE NEUTROPHIL-TO-LYMPHOCYTE RATIO, A NEW MARKER OF SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION, AND RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME Ceyhun Varım et al. Restless legs sy...

830 NM LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE (LED) PHOTOTHERAPY SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED RETURN-TO-PLAY IN INJURED UNIVERSITY ATHLETES: A PILOT STUDY John Foley,corresponding author David B Vasily, Jeanna Bradle, Catharine Rudio, and R Glen Calderhead I will not rule out the possibility of any therapy, including near ...

Thanks Steve for your studied response on this topic! It makes sense to me! I agree that sometimes a translation can get muddled. However, as I said, the list I posted is a small sample of the available studies that can be read. I think if someone is interested at all, the first thing to do is rese...

And I'm sure you can back up this claim using scientific, peer reviewed studies? I do not doubt that it will help certain conditions, but to me this claim sounds like complete and utter nonsense. You don't know what causes Restless Legs so how could you possibly know whether red light therapy would...