Available by prescription, Medi USA’s Restiffic compressive foot wrap for restless legs syndrome is FDA cleared as a Class 1 device. The drug-free therapy promotes gentle relaxing pressure on specific areas of the foot, Medi USA states.
“RLS is a debilitating condition for an estimated 10% of the US population, with many suffering from depression due to fatigue and quality of life issues,” says Glenn Anderson, medi USA director of medical category management, in a release. “The inability to sleep affects every aspect of their lives, as well as the lives of their loved ones.”
“RLS is traditionally treated with powerful narcotics and opioids which may help to some degree but the problems encountered by the medications are oftentimes of equal or greater significance than the RLS,” says John Sullivan, MD, a neurologist based in Florida who was involved in restiffic’s clinical trial.
Mary Sorg, the inventor and lifelong sufferer of RLS herself, has been working towards this for over a decade. “I just really want to help people with RLS. With restiffic, there’s no medication. It’s easy to use. It just works,” she says. Sorg was inspired to keep going over the years by positive results from restiffic’s clinical trial.
I received the Restiffic wraps on July 7. I followed all instructions and gave them a three week trail. The first two nights I woke will terrible pain in both feet. It took two night to adjust the tension so there was no pain. I tried two different modes of wearing, at bedtime, and after RLS woke me after a couple hours of sleep. The wraps made no difference whatsoever in my RLS symptoms, which are pretty bad after waking from the first few hours of sleep. The warp is also overpriced at $349. Something like $75 would be the max for materials and labor put into them. And there needs to be better research. With only 30 people in the only trial, results could easily be due to chance or placebo. A large Randomized Controlled Trial needs to be done to know if the wraps really work. They are worth giving a try. But the Restiffic Web site says they probably will only last 6 months before needing to be replace. So at the current price they get expensive very quickly.
I bought it, tried: no result. Plus it hurts my feet and my ankles get swallowed. It doesn’t work!