Non-pharm studies

Please share your experiences, successes, and failures in using non-drug therapies for RLS/WED (methods of relief that don't involve swallowing or injecting anything), including compression, heat, light, stretches, acupuncture, etc. Also under this heading, medical interventions that don't involve the administration of a medicine to the body (eg. varicose-vein operations, deep-brain stimulation). [This forum contains Topics started prior to 2009 that deal with Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, & Diet.]
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These are few and far between. And, they are often not done to rigorous medical standards. However, a few do exist. I just found another one, so thought I'd start a thread dedicated to these.
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This is a chiropractic study. The chiropractor says RLS is often the cause of pinched nerves in the lower back.

Since we know that RLS is hereditary about 50% of the time, and that there are several causes for secondary RLS, I guess this would become another secondary type, unless, of course, you had primary and secondary together...
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This is an [url]acupuncture[/url] study. It is somewhat inconclusive, but seems to show that it was helpful to some degree.
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