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 Apnea The Health Issue Right Under Our Noses.
By Nancy Markley Sleep apnea becoming disturbingly common in children and adolescents CALGARY, Alta. Oct. 14, 2016 / Troy Media / – Sleep Apnea, sleep-disordered breathing, and snoring: these are not just things you have to be aware of for you and your partner. These health issues are becoming disturbingly common in children and adolescents. Sleep-disordered breathing, which includes sleep apnea and snoring, affects 12 percent of children in the United States. This breaks down to approximately nine million children with sleep-disordered breathing, and perhaps as many as four million children with obstructive sleep apnea. To put his in context, …
How Smoking Kills Your Sleep.
By: Praveen Kumar Published: Tuesday, October 4, 2016, 6:15 Smoking kills in many ways. It is linked to several types of cancers, anxiety, depression, infections, heart issues and many other health issues. But seldom do smokers realise that their sleep is radically affected just because of the tobacco stick. And when you don’t get enough sleep, other disorders will easily affect you and make you weaker. Yes, nicotine can disrupt sleep cycles. If you don’t believe, then read on to know how the habit of smoking wrecks your natural sleep cycle. Fact #1 Smoking can directly affect your body’s natural …
Traffic pollution and noise may cause daytime sleepiness, nighttime snoring: study.
October 13, 2016 Sheffield, England – Do you sometimes feel like falling asleep at work? Traffic pollution and nighttime traffic noise may be to blame. Researchers from National University Hospital of Iceland and the University of Bergen analyzed data of more than 12,000 adults from the Respiratory Health in Northern Europe (RHINE) study. About 1 out of 5 adult participants complained of daytime sleepiness, and 1 out of 4 reported that they were habitual snorers. The researchers found that people who are exposed to increased levels of pollution have a 65 percent greater chance of suffering from daytime sleepiness. They …
Treatment could lower crash risk for truckers with sleep apnea.
By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Commercial truck drivers who get treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) for two years may reduce their crash risk to the level of drivers without apnea, a study from Italy suggests. For professional drivers, the screening, treatment and management of sleep disorders should be mandatory to reduce accident risk and improve road safety, the study authors write in the journal Sleep Medicine. “Screening for OSA in heavy vehicle drivers should be a major public safety priority,” senior author Luigi Ferini-Strambi, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, told …
Poor Sleep May Impair the Ability to Feel Empathy.
Linda Wasmer Andrews If you don’t snooze, you lose some of your capacity for emotional empathy. Posted Oct 03, 2016 Emotional empathy is the ability to share the emotional experience of others. It’s often the driving force behind caring, compassionate behavior. And it’s something that may be in short supply after a bad night’s sleep, according to anew study published online last month by the Journal of Psychophysiology. Lead author Veronica Guadagni, M.Sc., a doctoral candidate at NeuroLab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary, sums up the main finding this way: “If individuals describe their quality …
Why you should never use alcohol to help you fall asleep, according to science.
Lydia Ramsey | Sep. 24, 2016, 11:00 AM That glass of wine right before bed may make you feel drowsy, but don’t rely on it for quality sleep. Scientists have been studying the counterintuitive relationship between the drowsiness that comes from drinking alcohol and actual sleep since at least the 1930s. “If you drink alcohol before bed, it actually makes you fall asleep faster and sleep deeper, but then your body starts to metabolize that alcohol, and you’ll go through withdrawal,” Thomas Roth, director of the Henry Ford Sleep Research Center , told Business Insider’s Christina Sterbenz. “Your sleep will be …
Not all sleep apnea patients are obese.
September 26, 2016 Illustration of obstruction of ventilation. Credit: Habib M’henni / public domain Contrary to popular opinion, not all people who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are obese. However, a new study from Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and the Prince of Wales Hospital (POWH) highlights that normal-to-overweight patients with OSA likely require a different approach to treatment, which presents a challenge to clinicians. Obstructive sleep apnoea, a common condition that affects more than one million Australians, occurs when the throat closes off many times throughout the night – up to 100 times per hour of …
Sleep problems often at core of wider health problems, experts say.
Melanie Swan September 16, 2016 Updated: September 16, 2016 11:20 PM DUBAI // Under-diagnosis of sleep disorders is believed to be the cause of a wide range of health conditions, from depression to heart attacks. Human beings spend more than a third of their lives asleep, so it should not really be a surprise that a lack of it can be behind so many major health problems. Dr Mohammed Al Houqani, director of the Al Ain Sleep Laboratory and assistant dean for medical education at the college of medicine and health sciences at UAE University, said health professionals needed …
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