When Chronic Pain Is The Enemy Of Sleep.
Sep 21, 2016 | Tamara Kaye Sellman, RPSGT, CCSH | sleep, pain According to statistics from the 2015 Sleep in America™ Poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation: Nearly a quarter of those who suffer with chronic pain report higher stress levels Nearly half of those who suffer with chronic pain experience problems at work due to pain-related sleep loss People who suffer with chronic pain lose 42 minutes a night of sleep because of it. That translates into nearly 5 hours weekly, and over 10 days annually. Sleep debt like this can be extremely difficult to overcome A …
What To Do If You’re Struggling To Sleep
September 26, 2016 Many people have trouble sleeping, at least sometimes. Symptoms of insomnia are the most common sleep disorder and affect about one third of Americans at some point in their lives. Many people have trouble sleeping, at least sometimes. Symptoms of insomnia are the most common sleep disorder and affect about one third of Americans at some point in their lives. But chronic insomnia — when trouble sleeping persists for more than a month, and alters how you feel and perform during the day — is different, and affects about 8 to 10 percent of …
The Companies That Teach Their Employees How To Sleep.
JUL 31, 2016 @ 11:43 PM Andrew Cave , CONTRIBUTOR Question: What do camera-maker Olympus, accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers , Shire Pharmaceuticals, Unilever and Cambridge University have in common. Answer: They are all sending employees on courses to teach them how to sleep. Before you reach for your copy of Brave New World or do a Google search on neural reprogramming, rest assured. Guy Meadows doesn’t mind what employees dream about or hear while they are sleeping. However, the sleep physiologist has become increasingly concerned that employees are not getting the sleep they need to perform their duties to the levels …
Poor REM Sleep May Be Linked to Higher Risk for Anxiety, Depression.
Preliminary study suggests that emotional stress builds when this phase is disturbed, creating a ‘vicious cycle’ By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Feb. 8, 2016 (HealthDay News) — REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is the phase when dreams are made, and a lack of good REM sleep has long been associated with chronic insomnia. But new research is building on that association, suggesting that the bad and “restless” REM sleep experienced by insomnia patients may, in turn, undermine their ability to overcome emotional distress, raising their risk for chronic depression or anxiety. “Previous studies have pointed to REM sleep as …
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