Sleep Disorders & Treatments

Common Sleep Disorders

Chronic Insomnia:
When a person has trouble falling asleep or staying asleep night after night.

Sleep Apnea:
When a person stops and starts breathing again many times during the night.

Narcolepsy:
When a person falls asleep suddenly many times a day.  Some signs include hallucinations and muscle weakness.

For more information on sleep disorders, visit the National Sleep Foundation or the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Sleep Disorder Treatments

The results of your sleep study will be used to help determine an appropriate treatment plan that is relative to the sleep disorder.  For example, patients who present with sleep apnea during their sleep study may be prescribed continuous postive airway pressure (CPAP), seen below, which is a device that gently blows air into the nasal passages to keep the airway open while you are asleep.