What’s Causing Your Disturbed Sleep? Part One
Lack of sleep can seriously impact our lives, leaving us with no energy to enjoy our daily activities. Worse it can cause loss of libido and sexual performance, memory difficulties, headaches, hallucinations, judgement, coordination and concentration – the latter three potentially causing accidents.
If you’re experiencing difficulties sleeping then it could be one of several causes [...]
Surgical Procedures for Sleep Apnea
When patients fail to respond to non-surgical measures, more invasive techniques will be required. Here surgical methods can be used to anatomically alter the airways which can remove various obstructions in the nasal passage, throat, tongue and skull. This procedure needs to be ‘individualised’ to suit the particular needs of the patient but will most [...]
Sleep Apnea Treatments
If you are diagnosed with sleep apnea and home remedies or lifestyle changes prove ineffective, then your doctor may prescribe one of several treatments. Of the many sleep apnea treatments available, the most commonly used for constructive sleep apnea and probably the most affective is continuous positive airway pressure – whereby a machine pumps pressurised [...]
Devices for Curing Sleep Apnea
The most common and one of the most effective treatments for sleep apnea is ‘continuous positive airway pressure’ created by a device known unsurprisingly as a ‘Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Device’. This works by blowing a flow of pressurised air down the trachea which acts as a ‘splint’ opening it up during sleep. This takes [...]
Explaining Central Sleep Apnea Part Three
All individuals if taking large doses of central respiratory depressants are likely to experience incidences of central sleep apnea. This includes alcohol which is just such a depressant and also a sedative. Similarly opiates (opium, morphine, cocaine etc), barbiturates, benzodiazepines, some antidepressants and tranquilisers may increase risk. Those who already suffer from apnea can have [...]
Explaining Central Sleep Apnea Part Two
With this impulse being so powerful, healthy patients will continue to breath throughout the night with no conscious effort. However in sleep apnia, the patient’s neurological controls for breathing malfunction and give no signal to inhale. This then causes a drop in oxygen levels (hypoxaemia) and a rise in carbon dioxide (hypercapria). While a patient [...]
Explaining Central Sleep Apnea Part One
Understanding the common constructive cause of sleep apnea is fairly easy and therefore fairly easy to monitor and regulate in mild cases. However, rare though central sleep apnea is (accounting for only 0.4% of cases – though it plays a role in ‘mixed’ apnea also which accounts for 15% of cases) it is also important [...]
Exercises for Sleep Apnea Part 2
The specific exercises that can strengthen the neck muscles and so help prevent obstructive sleep apnea are as follows:
1) Take the palm of your hand and rest your head against it, we will start by resting it against the forehead for arguments sake. Now push against your hand with your head while offering light resistance [...]