Exercise Tips for Treating Restless Leg Syndrome

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of Expert Village today I'm going to talk to you about how to recognize and treat a condition called Restless Leg Syndrome. In this clip I'm going to talk to you about certain things that you can do at home, in the privacy of your home, to reduce the chances of you getting this condition. Now we know that with Restless Leg Syndrome there are many contributing factors to get it and one of them is stress and anxiety. One of the things you can do is to do pilates or yoga or any sort of form of exercise that will help you to relax and also to reduce stress but also to reduce the tension in your body, specifically for Restless Leg Syndrome, the lower half of your body from your waist and downwards. So here are some exercises, I'm on the pilates mat and you can buy this readily at any health food or exercising store very cheaply, and what you can do is throughout the day if you are able to you can find the space and you can do some leg exercises. You can lie down on your side and what you can do is just really give a good stretch and raise your legs, raise and exercise, you can change the positioning of your legs, anything that would relax the muscles, reduce the tension, and increase the circulation flow. Another one that is good is also to do the leg bending cycling which is very good. These are ways and things that you can do very quickly maybe 15 minutes or so during the day because Restless Leg Syndrome occurs more frequently at night time so that will reduce the chances of you getting that. Another thing to do is in pilates or what you can do is stretching exercises and this is a stretchy fabric that you can buy and with this you can do leg exercises for example here you can just use this as a way to really give your lower extremities a really good work out and these are just ways to reduce the stress and tension."