Are you having trouble sleeping?
Getting enough sleep is essential to physical and emotional health.
Adequate sleep helps the body recover from illness and injury and provides mental benefits. It's easier to concentrate, accomplish tasks and handle minor annoyances. Not enough sleep can impair the mind's ability to remember, learn, reason and make mathematical calculations. Sleep disorders may also lead to serious complications including: high blood pressure and heart disease.
Even an occasional poor night's sleep can cause stress and loss of productive work time. It can strain relationships and lead to fatigue-related accidents.
Sleep Stealers are:
- Unfamiliar Surroundings
- Physical Factors
- Medicine
- Stress
How do I get a good night's sleep?
If sleep problems persist for more than a week at a time, your health care provider is your best source of advice. He/she may suggest a lifestyle change or medication, but he may also recommend that you undergo a diagnostic Sleep Study.
Approximately six percent of the American population suffers from some type of sleep disorder. Take the brief Sleep Test below to see if you might qualify and be helped by a Sleep Study. A Sleep Study can be conducted conveniently for you at First Care Medical Services.
Sleep Quiz
- Do you wake up tired even after a full night's sleep?
- Do you wake up with a headache?
- Do you have insomnia?
- Do you snore loudly at night?
- Do you stop breathing in your sleep or wake up choking?
- Do your legs jerk when you sleep?
- Are you drowsy during the day?
- Does daytime sleepiness interfere with your work?
- Have you fallen asleep while driving or eating?
Symptoms
- Nasal Obstruction/congestion/sinus/allergy
- Leg cramps or pins and needles sensation in legs
Past History
- Have you had a recent weight gain?
- Did you have sleep problems as a child?
What is a Sleep Study?
Sleep studies include continuous monitoring of sleep patterns by brain waves, eye movements, oxygen saturation, heart rate, breathing patterns, body and leg movements. The results are interpreted and evaluated by a Sleep Study physician, and recommendations are then made to the patient. Who should be tested?
Sleep problems can affect people of all ages, and they can affect your home, work and social life - even making everyday activities difficult. People with sleep disorders often have trouble staying awake and alert.
Sleep studies performed at First Care Medical Services are accepted medical procedures and thus should be covered by most insurance carriers.
Contact Information
For referrals or for more information about Sleep Studies, call Joan Brown at First Care Medical Services (218) 435-7636