by Carol Bartram on August 20, 2010
Stress can take its toll on the best of us. The demands of family, children and work can leave us feeling stressed and out of sorts and it can be difficult to reduce this stress whilst right in the middle of it.
We all know one of the best ways to relieve stress is to leave [...]
It’s becoming more and more widely understood that the body is a series of interconnected systems, and that when something goes wrong with one of these systems, then this can cause further complications and side-effects in another. It’s also true that as Obstructive Sleep Apnea is more and more fully understood, and that knowledge permeates [...]
Sleeping with someone who snores can be a nightmare. We all know it’s true. Everyone’s had that moment when we look across at our loved one as they sleep, and hear them start to snore! Of course, the fact that they’re fast asleep means that it can be virtually impossible to make them believe that [...]
Insomnia, and sleep deprivation in general, is a problem which can effect almost every aspect of our lives, but is easy to overlook. After all, because we all suffer from lack of sleep, from time to time, and sometimes it’s just the way things are- there are times when despite being tired, you just have to [...]
Traditionally, the way to diagnose Sleep Apnea in a patient, or rather to confirm a diagnosis, has been for that patient to spend a night in a sleep lab. There, a complicated series of monitors and sensors would determine that OSA was indeed the issue- air pressure readings, heart-rate monitors and so on would be [...]