Vasculaire Leg Compression Device for the Treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome - A Prospective Clinical Study

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Conditions studied: Restless Legs Syndrome,, Restless Legs,, Ekbom Syndrome

In brief

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a debilitating sleep disorder that has significant impact on quality of life, and often times can be difficult to diagnose and treat effectively. RLS is typically treated with medical therapy (including dopaminergic agents, dopamine agonists, benzodiazepines, anticonvulsants, opiates, among other therapies). Many patients are either refractory to medical therapy, have contraindications or adverse reactions to the available medical therapies, or desire conservative non-medication based therapies. Two previous studies have demonstrated that pneumatic compression devices placed on the legs can improve symptoms of RLS. We would like to assess whether the Venous Health Systems Vasculaire leg compression device improves symptoms and quality of life measures related to RLS in up to 40 patients evaluated prospectively for one month. This is a pilot study to assess the subjective response of our cohort of patients to this device prospectively. Our hypothesis is that over 66% of our cohort will demonstrate a positive symptomatic response based on RLS specific quality of life questionnaires.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01861652

Run by

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

People needed

0

Starts

2013-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-06-16

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Individuals who are at least 18 years of age with a reliable diagnosis of RLS in accordance with the International Classification of Sleep Disorder, Revised Diagnostic and Coding Manual of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. All patients included must have persistent symptoms that interfere with quality of life. Patients who are currently on approved medical therapy for RLS must be on a stable dose/agent for ≥30 days and experience persistent symptoms that interfere with quality of life. Patients who are currently refractory to medical therapies may also be included if they are presently under the care of a physician and receiving medical therapy for RLS for ≥30 days without improvement and/or having experienced unacceptable side effects. Pregnancy status is not being assessed and is not relevant to device use.

You may not qualify if…

• Younger than 18 years, unstable medical conditions that may interfere with the requirements of the study, e.g. diabetes mellitus, symptomatic asthma, congestive heart failure with nocturnal symptoms, and mental or physical limitation (including dementia) that would preclude data collection on questionnaires or wearing intermittent pneumatic compression devices. Other medical conditions that would serve as exclusion criteria are those where increased venous or lymphatic return is undesirable. These specific conditions are known or suspected deep vein thrombosis, thrombophlebitis, severe congestive heart failure, pulmonary edema, severe arteriosclerosis, action infection such as gangrene, recent vein ligation or skin graft, or extreme deformity of the legs. Patients with iron deficiency anemia, or evidence of inadequate serum iron stores on laboratory testing are also excluded until this has been corrected.

Where it is running

• Walter Reed National Military Medical Center — Bethesda, Maryland, United States

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