Over 30 Years of Service

The Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) agency that is dedicated to improving the lives of men, women, and children who live with this often-devastating disease. The organization’s goals are to increase awareness, improve treatments, and advance research to find a cure.

The RLS Foundation is the leading organization for science-based education and patient services for people with restless legs syndrome. It is also the only organization with a dedicated research grant program to advance promising research leading to new treatments and a cure for RLS.

Since its inception in 1992, the Foundation has provided over $2 million in support of RLS research, and has grown from a small group of volunteers meeting around a kitchen table in Raleigh, North Carolina into a bustling organization with full time staff and an office in Austin, TX.

RLS was regarded as a “rare” condition when we began, but understanding of the disease has changed drastically. The condition is not rare at all, recent research suggests that up to 7-8 percent of the general population has this neurologic condition. Through education and advocacy efforts it is our goal to expand the understanding of RLS.