A new study suggests a simple and easy-to-perform leg maneuver may eliminate those annoying symptoms.
Researchers then compared the women’s symptoms upon rising without intervention to those experienced with either intervention method. They found the interventions were associated with a smaller drop in and a lessening of symptom scores: 14 in the control condition and 9 with either intervention.
The symptoms experienced by the women in this study are very common, said Dr. N.A. Mark Estes, a visiting professor of medicine and the program director for the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. While the study is small, it does offer a couple of relatively simple solutions, he said. And most people are not likely to need anything further, he added.
Although the condition is benign in a sense, “it can be very compromising to a person’s quality of life, certainly in their ability to do tasks or their profession,” said Dr. Matthew Tomey, a cardiologist and an assistant professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.