Exercises To Alleviate Sleep Apnea.
Note from Dr. Norman Blumenstock: These exercises may be helpful with oral appliance therapy patients as well. THE HANS INDIA | Jun 18,2016 , 11:01 PM IST Snoring isn’t something that most of us worry about. In fact some of us even relate snoring to having a good night’s sleep. Around 40-45 per cent adults snore some or other time during sleep and they are unable to discern the difference between simple snoring and snoring as a disease. However, loud snoring when accompanied by daytime fatigue could be a sign of Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Obstructive Sleep Apnea is …
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 …
Is your bub a snorer? You need to read this.
Donné Restom We may think it’s cute when the baby snores, but ENT specialist, Dr David McIntosh, says a snoring child could be a marker of a much bigger problem. When I was pregnant with my child, he quickly acquired the name, Piglet – and for obvious reasons. Piglet made mummy eat lots. Piglet made mummy very fat. Good fat though. Healthy pregnancy blossoming mama fat. But I digress. When Piglet emerged from the womb, his name quickly and naturally shifted to The Pig. The Pig is hungry. The Pig is crying. The Pig is alseep. Darling, can you put The …
For Those With Sleep Apnea, Maybe It’s Time for a Driving Test.
Researchers hope to ID those with higher crash risk due to fatigue TUESDAY, Sept. 6, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Erratic driving may be a problem for people with sleep apnea. People with the sleep disorder were more likely to fail simulated driving tests than people without the disorder (a “control” group). Lane deviation, in particular, was a serious problem for those who failed the tests, a new study found. “Worse lane position deviation is a marker of poor driving performance and this is significantly worse in [sleep apnea] patients who fail the simulator as compared to controls,” wrote Dr. Akshay …
Oventus closer to cure for snoring and sleep apnoea with its 3D printed mouthguards.
Aug 27, 2016 | By Nick Oventus Medical Ltd is another step closer to ending the scourges of snoring and sleep apnoea with its 3D printed mouthguards. A successful IPO on the Australian Stock Exchange last month raised $12 million. The company has now reported first year revenues of $540,164 and that shows a real appetite for a relatively simple device that can change lives around the world. Oventus can now focus on developing the second generation O2Vent T system with its partner, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Melbourne, Australia. Now the US Food and Drug …
Overactive bladder linked to sleep apnea in women: Study
By: Devon Andre | Bladder | Wednesday, August 03, 2016 – 03:30 PM Overactive bladder is linked to sleep apnea in women, according to research. Overactive bladder is characterized by a higher frequency and urgency to urinate, along with incontinence and frequent awakenings throughout the night to urinate (nocturia). The need to urinate throughout the night is also a common symptom of sleep apnea, but little research looking at the two conditions together has been conducted. The findings come from researchers at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, Spain. Seventy-two female participants completed questionnaires about their symptoms related to …
DentiTrac Oral Appliance System
NEW GOLD STANDARD IN WEARABLE COMPLIANCE MEASUREMENT RECEIVES TAP ORAL APPLIANCE FDA CLEARANCE TEST. TREAT. TRAC. ® 25th August 2016: BRAEBON Medical Corporation announces today that the DentiTrac® oral appliance compliance system has passed a substantial regulatory hurdle and is now FDA cleared in the USA for use with the Airway Management TAP® family of oral devices. BRAEBON congratulates Airway Management for achieving this milestone. The DentiTrac® system has been developed by BRAEBON. It is a wearable microrecorder and web cloud portal combination which defines the new gold standard for the objective measurement of oral appliance compliance measurement for sleep …
Untreated Sleep Apnea May Boost Cardiovascular Risk After Angioplasty
JUNE 16, 2016 BY JENNIFER LICATA UNTREATED SLEEP APNEA MAY BOOST CARDIOVASCULAR RISK AFTER ANGIOPLASTY JUNE 16, 2016 BY JENNIFER LICATA BEACON TRANSCRIPT – Japanese researchers found a link between breathing problems during sleep including snoring and apnea and a high risk of having a stroke or developing a heart condition in patients who had underwent angioplasty. Angioplasty is a surgical procedure aimed at clearing blood vessels from dangerous plaque which obstructs the blood flow through arteries and thus ups the risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. The study found that Japanese patients who underwent the procedure …
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