SLEEP DISORDERS
Do you wake up sleepy and feel groggy during the day?
An estimated 50 million people in America live with sleep disorders ranging from insomnia to sleep apnea and parasomnias. Ogden Clinic’s Sleep Medicine Specialty features sleep experts you can trust for the complete diagnosis and treatment of these disorders.
What is a Sleep Disorder?
Sleep disorders refer to a change or disturbance in a patient’s normal sleep pattern. Sleep disorders may affect the amount of sleep and quality of sleep someone receives. Sleep timing may also be of concern in the case of disorders like narcolepsy. Sleep disorders can be linked to both medical and emotional causes.
Types of Sleep Disorders
Insomnia: A persistent inability to fall asleep or stay asleep.
Snoring: A partial obstruction of the upper airway shown to increase the risk of heart attacks and/or strokes. Loud or heavy snoring can also be a symptom of a more serious disorder known as sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea: A life-threatening disorder that causes a person to stop breathing periodically while sleeping.
Narcolepsy: A neurological illness characterized by sudden, uncontrollable sleep attacks and persistent daytime sleepiness.
Restless legs syndrome: A disorder characterized by excessive moment of the legs during sleep, which causes arousal.
Parasomnias: Abnormal and recurrent nighttime behaviors such as sleepwalking, sleep talking, night terrors, head banging and other related nighttime behavior.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorders: A group of sleep disorders that are due to mistiming of the biological clock. People with these disorders have sleep times that seem to be out of alignment and tend to go to bed late or wake up early.