Hi, I thought this informative wikipedia site may help us a bit, you may find this statement "Monochromatic near-infrared light treatment has also been shown to decrease symptoms associated with WED/RLS. A study showed there was a steady decrease in symptoms over the four weeks in the treatment group, and after four weeks of treatment, the treatment group had a significantly greater improvement in RLS symptoms than the control group"
useful as well.
Howdy. Thanks for the info. Did the participants sit in an infrared sauna or go into a tube like structure that looks like an MRI machine? Very interesting. What do they attribute their success to. Raised body temperature, better circulation, killing off of certain micro-organisms due to heating from the inside out?
I remember this near infrared light treatment being on the WED/RLS Foundation, they were looking for volunteers to try it out. It was a small study of people and for a short time. To actually buy one of these machines is very expensive if i recall. And a long way off from being used by the medical profession, more research is needed.
Here is what i found about that study.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/209...
Hi Elisse, how are you, thanks for your ref. I also found some clinical evidence of this therapy :
veinpartners.com/education/...
Hi rahim, i am okey dokey. Lets hope more research is done on this. A bigger study and for a longer period of time would give a better idea whether this treatment would help in the long term. If its safe to use over a long period. Lots of questions need to be answered.
I agree with that Elisse, I just wanted to let people know it is there
Yes, its always good to read these things, gives us food for thought... thanks for posting it. 
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Hi whitetea
I have not tried it yet but I think it is some kind of light prob applying over the area( skin contact ), you can see some images in this site :
images.google.com/search?si...
I don't think you would need to buy one, here is a good reference regarding to the issue :
I think it needs a lot more research, as it is very expensive, and a lot of us certainly dont have the money to waste, if it's not going to work, and i dont think the study was big enough by far
yup, they are still working on it.
Off-course, that is the least I can do for my great friends.
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