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 …
Sleep injustice: When your income, job and where you live make sleep hard to get.
ABC Health & Wellbeing By Lisa Cox Posted 5 October 2016 at 10:01 pm Updated 5 October 2016 at 10:01 pm It’s not hard to imagine how noise, the weather, an unsettled child or a bad day at work could influence how you sleep. But what about where you live, your ethnicity, your education, or your income? Would a factory shift worker from a non-English speaking background who lives in a rough part of town be more likely to have poor sleep than a professional from a well-to-do suburb earning a stable income? Not withstanding the sleep-disrupting pressures …
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