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We make it easy, convenient, and affordable for you to conduct sleep studies that you can do from the comfort of your own home.
What is OSA?
(Obsturctive Sleep Apnea)
OSA causes your breathing to suddenly stop during the night, either due to blockages or misfiring signals in your brain. As a result, your body becomes stressed and works to make start breathing again. As your chest contracts and your body fights for air, you don’t get properly rested with the oxygen your brain and other vital organs need.
Cumulative Effect of OSA
The longer that the disease goes untreated, the greater the negative side effects and associated health risks. If sleep apnea remains untreated, other health conditions may emerge or current health problems may heighten.
- High blood pressure
- Heart disease
- Heart attack
- Heart failure
- Stroke
- Diabetes
- Depression
- Reflux disease (GERD)
- Arthrosclerosis
- Gestational diabetes
- Sexual dysfunction
- Difficulty concentrating on tasks such as driving – fatal car accidents are increased seven fold.
- Excessive daytime sleepiness
- Morning and daytime headaches
- Generalized irritability
- Impaired emotional function
- Sleep disordered breathing in childhood may be instrumental in delaying or damaging cognitive development
We want to help you sleep soundly and restfully. We want to help you be the best you there is.
Stacy Palmer
Diagnosis
Talk to your healthcare provider. Complete the Sleep Screening Questionnaire and give the results to your healthcare provider to start the discussion. If appropriate, your healthcare provider will prescribe a sleep study for you.
You may be prescribed a home sleep test. This offers an easier option, as you will be able to spend the night in your own bed in familiar surroundings. An at home sleep test is easier, more affordable, and convenient. This is what we do, and recommend for all our customers!
This will require that you go to a sleep center and spend the night in their facility. In order to evaluate for a number of sleep diseases, electrodes will be attached to your head and body to perform a full sleep study.
Treatments
A CPAP machine is the most common treatment for OSA. The CPAP machine is small, pulls, compresses, and blows air into a tube which is attached to a mask worn by the patient. The pressurized air from the CPAP keeps the airway open, allowing the patient to breathe.
While CPAP is the common treatment option, other modalities of treatment do exist, including:
- Lifestyle changes
- Positional therapy
- Weight loss
- Oral appliances
- Surgical procedures
Patients who treat OSA will return to a more normal sleep pattern allowing the body its much needed rest. Patients will feel more awake and energetic allowing increased focus and activity throughout the day. Benefits also include: reduced risk of stroke, heart failure, diabetes, hypertension and other ailments associated with OSA.
Here’s to your health
Stacy Palmer
R.T. (R)
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