Update on RLS 2026 Part 2

Welcome to Mayo Clinic Sleep Medicine Podcasts, a series for physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, and other health practitioners treating sleep disorders or interested in learning about state-of-the-art advances in sleep medicine and sleep health.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Silber.

And I'm your co-host, Dr. Maitri Juna.

We are both consultants at the Center for Sleep Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Thank you all for joining us for today's podcast titled Update on the Management of Restless Legs Syndrome, Part 2.

It has been about two years since we last did a podcast on restless leg syndrome.

And since then, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine has published new clinical guidelines for the management of RLS and the Scientific and Medical Advisory Board of the Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation, has revised their algorithm for the management of this condition.

In our last podcast, Dr. Michael Silber, who chaired the task force of the foundation responsible for the recent update, discussed first-line therapies for the management of RLS.

And today, he returns to discuss second-line approaches.