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Pneumatic compression device
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 4:13 pm
by tcd
Hello, this is my first posting altought I have had rls for about 10 years. In the most recent Nightwalker one of the ask the doctor questions decribed a clinical study using this device. It showed some promise. Has any tried a pneumatic pressure device if so what kind and what were the pro's and con's. Thanks tcd.
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:31 am
by SquirmingSusan
Hello, and welcome to the forum. I moved this topic to the "Non-Pharmaceutical Therapies" section of the message board since that treatment is non-pharma. It seems like some people have tried that and have had some success. And then some people hate those things...
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:38 am
by sodapop527
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 5:35 am
by badnights
You can tell your doc there's recent research indicating that it shows promise for RLS (
http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/135/1/74.abstract). There's also an anecdotal letter to Dr. Buchfuhrer on the
southern California RLS support group website from a lady who had read the above article; her physician agreed to arrange a trial for her, and at the point she wrote the letter (4 weeks in) she had benefited from it (reduction in meds, not elimination of them). However, in response to an earlier letter enquiring about PCD's , Dr. B replied as follows:
This study was quite interesting and does hold some promise for a leg compression device that may help RLS. However, we really need more information before anyone (expert or otherwise) should recommend any RLS patient to go out and buy one. There is some contradictory evidence on this device as the second (after a very weak preliminary study) done by Rajaram SS, Rudzinskiy P and Walters AS did not find this device to be helpful (although they did run into some technical difficulties with the study).
I would definitely recommend waiting for follow up studies with greater number of patients before going out and buying this very expensive compression device.
No reason not to try it, other than expense.
