Sleeping 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 how to treat the syndrome of Restless Leg Syndrome. Now in this clip we're going to talk about positioning and sleeping habits. Now most of the time we always have a favorite way to sleep in bed and what we do is we tend to lie on our sides for long periods of time and we scrunch up our body and when you do this you tend to compress the lower abdominal area and also restrict the blood flow to the lower extremities or the lower legs and that would increase your chances of getting the Restless Leg Syndrome so it is recommended that while you are sleeping a lot of times it is good to change positions constantly so that you don't restrict blood flow to your legs and also to cause a lot of constriction of muscles around this area. It is better if you can to sleep on your back or flat out like this because there are no restrictions or compression on any parts of your body. Also it would be good besides doing the constant changing around of your body is to get a pillow, like what I have here is a kind of cylindrical round pillow, and it is good to put this under your legs and that sort of helps to alleviate the creepy crawly sensations in your legs. These are some of the ways that you can actually try to use to try to reduce the severity or the intensity of that creepy crawly sensation that you encounter when you get the Restless Leg Syndrome."