sleepeducation.orgRLS Awareness Day
Also: International RLS Awareness Day · Restless Legs Syndrome/Willis-Ekbom Disease Awareness Day
Held each 23 September (Karl Ekbom's birthday), with state resolutions in Texas and California (2013) and downloadable 'RLS Aware' posters; AASM recognises the day and urges people with symptoms to seek care.
- Years
- 2013–now
- Country
- United States
- Topic
- Sleep
- Asks people to
- RecognizeSeek help
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- Social (organic)Website
- Audience
- General publicgeneral public, people with RLS, clinicians
Evidence
NoneUnknown
No evaluation found. A study of YouTube RLS videos found popularity unrelated to quality, with physician-made videos better.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation NGO
- European Alliance for Restless Legs Syndrome (EARLS) NGO
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Sources
- Restless legs lead to restless nights sponsor
- Texas Senate Resolution 823 (2013) sponsor · 2013
- An analysis of YouTube videos about restless leg syndrome: Choosing the right guide reference · 2023 · DOI 10.1097/MD.0000000000035633 · PMID 37861537
Research notes
Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. startYear 2013 is the earliest dated source found, not a confirmed launch year.
Record cases/rls-awareness-day.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign