Personally, I wouldn’t think of homeopathy first when looking for a cure for RLS. There are undoubtedly people who do. Since I am curious by nature, I decide to read up on this topic as well. I find that interesting anyway. Also, I think I’m doing others a favor by sorting this information out in … Read more
A fellow sufferer told me a while ago that in addition to RLS, she also suffers from piriformis syndrome. I didn’t know what that was then. She told me the pain was in her buttock and hip. The pain radiated to her leg. She also felt it in her calf. Same woman recently contacted me … Read more
I’ve talked about breathing exercises related to restless legs before in my blogs. Breathing exercises are found in yoga. You can also find them in certain forms of meditation or in forms of mindfulness. I described another application of breathing exercises a while back in my blog about cold showers. In the Netherlands, when you … Read more
I know from several fellow sufferers that they benefit from dry needling for their restless legs. Dry needling treatment falls under physiotherapy. It seems to be quite painful for some, but apparently also regularly has a favorable result. When I first heard about this, I initially thought of acupuncture. However, the fellow sufferers told me … Read more
A correspondent friend has recently encouraged me a few times to look at the teachings of Ayurveda related to RLS. He hopes that there might be some clues that could be of use to me. Until now I have put off writing on this topic. I have never really looked at the view of Ayurveda … Read more
While searching the internet for sleep therapy, I came across a program about mindfulness. I was immediately curious if this could also be useful for people with restless legs. Mindfulness is closely related to yoga and meditation. I have a lot of experience with that, both as a practitioner and as a facilitator. I thought … Read more
A fellow sufferer wrote that she has been trying to eat less gluten lately. In addition to restless legs, she also has problems with her intestines. Gluten is hot these days. You hear about it everywhere and alternative products are available in many stores. Of course, that has a price tag. Personally, I wonder how … Read more
In some of my previous blogs I wrote that restless legs sometimes make me think of inflammation. It can feel as if the body is ‘igniting’ in something causing that rotten feeling in the legs. Not long ago I had a brief email exchange with a fellow sufferer. She told me, among other things, that … Read more
In my previous blogs I mentioned orthomolecular medicine several times. On various topics related to the treatment of restless legs, it takes an alternative view. If you read about the orthomolecular view, you will see a number of things. Sometimes it is described as therapy, sometimes as medicine or cure. The practitioner is sometimes called … Read more
Not so long ago I thought I saw the beginning of varicose veins on one of my calves for the first time. I’m in my late forties. From friends who are older than me I have heard that they also started to suffer from this around fifty. I don’t know exactly how you get varicose … Read more
