Category: Positional Therapy

Published on May 16, 2016 Sleep medicine providers are using oral appliances along with positional therapy to treat a subset of patients. By Cassandra Perez For patients who refuse or fail CPAP, several alternative therapies may be considered. And recently, some providers are treating appropriate candidates with several alternative therapies used simultaneously to achieve better outcomes. The use of positional therapy, a behavioral strategy to prevent patients from sleeping in the supine position when they have a positional component to their obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), along with oral appliance therapy (OAT) is a growing trend among sleep medicine providers and …