Sleep Info Resources Page

Other Web sites with information on Sleep Disorders

• The Sleep Medicine Home Page - This is the most complete compilation of sleep information on the web. Check this page for a wide variety of sleep related information.

• American Academy of Sleep Medicine - This is the official association of sleep professionals. This may help you find a sleep professional/center in your area.

• The UCLA Sleep Home Page - A wealth of information about clinical treatment, research, funding, and placements for sleep disorders. Adobe Acrobat is needed to read the articles.

• National Sleep Foundation - Their goal is to increase public awareness about health problems related to sleep disorders. Programs such as The Drive Alert...Arrive Alive campaign and other information about the effects of sleep deprivation on this page.

• Phantom Sleep Page - This site is mostly about sleep apnea and snoring but does have significant other sleep information. Details on sleep apnea publications by Jerry Halberstadt (who has sleep apnea and maintains this site) and others. Order his handbook for patients Phantom of the Night: Overcome Sleep Apnea and Snoring here.

• Sleep Net - Miscellaneous sleep information. Excellent source for links to many different sleep related sites and topics. The site has a section on RLS information.

• Healthtouch - Health Information - This site has a wealth of information on drugs (including a pharmacy search) and many different health problems. There is information on RLS (from the National Sleep Foundation)and other sleep disorders available at this site.

• Kerrin Leon White, M.D., a physician with severe sleep apnea, has an excellent web site with many references and articles on obstructive sleep apnea.

• Stanford University Center for Narcolepsy - Latest research and information on Narcolepsy. Lots of practical details on narcolepsy including the latest on medications and other treatments.

• Cure Narcolepsy Now - Part of the National Sleep Foundation. Information about research funding and the researchers involved in narcolepsy.

• Support group <alt.support.sleep-disorder> - Sleep disorders support and discussion group.

• Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation Support Page - This is the RLS Foundation's support page. Locate a support group in your area or get brochures, newsletters and other information on RLS.

• The National Institute of Health (NIH) and The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) - They have a Sleep Information website with information about all sleep disorders including RLS. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes Health (NINDS) and The National Institute Health (NIH), fact sheet on Restless Legs Syndrome which is a 4 page fact sheet on RLS that can be downloaded or ordered by email. In addition, they have a new 16 page document called Restless Legs Syndrome: Detection and Management in Primary Care intended for primary care doctors that has some basic and official looking RLS information (may be helpful to make your own physician aware of RLS).   You can download the information from their website or order hard copies of the document. You may also want to check out on this site, the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research which has links to other available publications and other interesting resources.

• Jill Gunzel's Personal Non-medication RLS Treatment site - This web site is written by Jill Gunzel, an RLS sufferer for more than 40 years.  She offers her experiences, observations, theories, and non-medication treatments for RLS.

• Cyberspace RLS (Restless Leg Syndrome) Support Group - Discussion list for RLS/PLMD sufferers. Topics      include treatments, medications, alternative therapies and most of all....support from over 950 other RLS sufferers from all over the world. This support group has been very effective for people that do not have a local RLS Support group in their areas. It is now moderated by Donna McLellan.
   
• RLS_Insomnia_Support_Group@yahoogroups.com - This is a newer support group that is moderated and run by Donna McLellan. It is quite active and has many members from the RLS Foundation's website as regular visitors.
   
• RLS_PLMD at yahoogroups is an e-mail list support group for people with very active or severe restless legs syndrome and/or periodic limb movement disorder.  RLS_PLMD at yahoogroups has been set up specifically for people that have found no benefit from herbs, supplements, over-the-counter remedies or do-it-yourself home treatments and would rather not deal with lots of e-mails pertaining to their use.  These topics are off-topic for this group. This group is not as busy as most groups.
.
 
• The Dutch RLS Foundation's web site - This is a new site that is developing an English version in addition to their basic Dutch version.

• Talk About Sleep - This is a new site devoted to all aspects of sleep including RLS and PLMD. Has lots of information and chat groups.
   
• Ekbom Support Group - The Ekbom Support Group was formed in the United Kingdom in 1988 by  Mrs. Eileen Gill  and now has members in many parts of the world. There is a lot of information on RLS including a forum that you can join.

• The Sarasota/Manatee RLS Support Group - This is a new site put together by this long standing support group.
   

• The Granite State RLS Support Group - This is the site of the New Hampshire support group in Bow run by Fran Blakeney.
   

• Frank Lewis web based page for research into RLS - This site is done personally by Frank Lewis as an effort to use a web based survey to determine the cause of RLS.  He has a theory about RLS being muscle based and would like to use this survey to help support this hypothesis.  This survey is not sponsored by any scientific or other organization.  He is doing this study on his own and has independently thought up his idea of what causes RLS and how to use this web page survey to support his hypothesis.
   
• The We Move site has very good information for both physicians and patients.
   
• Bandolier site - This is a new British site that reviews studies done on various treatments for RLS.
   
• RemedyFind is a free, unbiased site (not sponsored by drug companies etc.) where individuals can rate the effectiveness of the Restless Legs Syndrome treatments they have tried.

And now for something completely different!

The next few pages have underwater pictures of fish, corals, and invertebrates taken by our staff.
Click below if you want to take an underwater photo visit with the denizens of the deep.

• Click here to go to the SomnoMedix Underwater Photo Gallery

Before leaving this web site you may still want to visit the SomnoMedix Underwater Photo Gallery or the new Southern California RLS Support Group. Please come again and e-mail us with any of your questions or comments.

• Click here to return to the beginning of the Home Page

Source: SomnoMedix Sleep Info Resources Page
http://www.rlshelp.org/somnomed.htm
Copyright © SomnoMedix Corporation 1996.
This web site was last modified on Monday, October 20, 2008.
This page was created with the FrontPage 98, a Web Page Editor. Editor.