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I learned about using a shakti mat on You Tube from a Swedish nurse. You can get them at amazon. My partner calls it a bed of nails. I lay on it without a shirt at nite before bed. It only hurts for less than a minute and then it relaxes you. She thought it might take your mind off the RLS. I think it actually enables relaxation by forcing the nerves to "shape up".
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I hope it helps you! Some sleep on it all night. I can only do about 30 mins, but it helps. Now I found another trick on Tube from a PT. Lay on a tennis ball that's on the 3 trigger points of the gluteus medius. Put your hand on the sacrum and then move to the side about 2 or 3 inches and put the ball right on the top of the pelvis. Roll around on the ball till the muscle unknots. Then move it to the right and repeat and then move more to right and do it again. Repeat on the other side. I'm convinced that we each have to find out own solutions because RLS seems to be a partial mystery to the medical community...but I know they are really trying.