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A sleep physician is a doctor who has completed his/her education in the field of sleep medicine. Sleep specialist treats sleep disorders, and other sleep related problems like pulmonology, neurology, internal medicine, psychiatry etc.
Proper sleep plays crucial role in our good health and trouble in sleeping can affect your day to day life and may cause serious medical problems such as asthma, epilepsy and heart disease.
As per most of the doctors, an individual should sleep at least for 6-8 hours every day. A quality and sound sleep in the night makes you feel happy, energetic and fresh on the next day. In brief, a sound sleep is the barometer of your overall health. Apart from enhancing physical health of the body, quality sleep also improves a person’s mental health. Therefore we can say that sleeping is the basic necessity of life which is as imperative as food, cloth and shelter.
As per National Institutes of Health (NIH), more than 40 million people in the United States suffer from some kind of sleep disorder. It is the one of the most common disease which can affect people of any age group. Sadly, most of us ignore sleeping problems, which may lead to poor health, no presence of mind, unconcerned towards work, bad relationships etc.
Sleep physicians treat innumerable sleep-related problems such as snoring, apnea, insomnia, narcolepsy (daytime sleepiness), and circadian rhythm problem. Circadian rhythm sleep disorders like delayed sleep, and jet lag cause chronic or occasional disturbances in sleeping pattern and may cause extreme sleepiness or difficulty in sleeping.
Sleep physicians also cure and diagnose parasomnias. It is a kind of unusual events or conditions that happens while sleeping. Some of the conditions are following:
Physicians conduct sleep evaluation and clinical, to diagnose sleeping diseases. Under the diagnosis, physician generally checks complete medical history of the patient and entire family and perform laboratory tests and a physical assessment.
To get the diagnosis, you need to stay in the sleep center for a night so that the sleep specialist evaluates your cycle of wake and sleep. Evaluation of sleep include actigraphy, multiple sleep latency test (MSLT), polysomnography and maintenance of wakefulness test (MWT). These physicians use various methods to cure sleeplessness. Some of the most common treatments are- CPAP, medications, oral machine to prevent teeth grinding, and therapy such as cognitive behavioral therapy, bright light therapy are used to treat sleep disorders.
If you or your loved one is suffering from any type of sleep disorder problem then instead of getting worried you should immediately take treatment from a certified and trained sleep physician. Numerous sleeping centers have been opened in all parts of the world where sleep specialists diagnose and treat people suffering from sleeplessness. If you are residing in Anchorage, Alaska, you can easily find many board certified sleeping centers which offer this service. These centers arrange various types of sleeping courses under the supervision of skilled, trained and qualified doctors where you can get quality sleep and forget all your problems.
