Sleep Medicine

Fast Facts About Restless Leg Syndrome

Approximately 10% of Americans find trouble sleeping due to restless leg syndrome (RLS). Restless leg syndrome, also known as Willis-Ekbom disease, is a disorder in which there is a strong urge to move your legs due to uncomfortable sensations while lying in bed. Let’s discuss some facts that you may want to know about RLS…. 

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Lung Cancer Treatment

Cancer causes abnormal cells in the body to grow out of control. When the disease starts in the lungs, it is called lung cancer. Lung cancer can be treated in several different ways, depending on the type of lung cancer and how far it has spread. You can learn more about the different lung cancer treatments below…. 

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How-To Guide: Preparing for a Sleep Study

If you aren’t able to fall asleep or stay asleep as well as you would like, then it is probably in your best interest to have an evaluation by a sleep doctor. Your sleep doctor may recommend a “sleep study” to reveal some of the mysteries of what is happening while you sleep. A sleep… 

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Sleep Study: Improving People’s Lives

Thousands of men and women in the United States suffer from undiagnosed sleep disorders, much to the detriment of their health and safety. If you suspect you are one of these people, a sleep study could be your key to overcoming your sleep problem and, ultimately, restoring your overall quality of life. In this blog… 

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Sleep Awareness Week: Tips from Our Experts on How to Improve the Quality of Your Sleep

The importance of sleep cannot be overemphasized. That is why over the past two decades, the National Sleep Foundation has been promoting Sleep Awareness Week around the second week of March, with the goal of shining a spotlight on the importance of establishing healthy sleep routines. Here at the Lung & Sleep Specialists of North… 

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Sleepwalking: More Common Than You Know

“Sleepwalking”—the term can seem amusing, but it is a real phenomenon that can have harmful consequences on the health and safety of both the sufferer and the people in their household. Also known as somnambulism, sleepwalking is a common condition, affecting as many as 17 percent of children and 4 percent of adults in the… 

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Ask a Sleep Expert: Is It Bad to Have an Irregular Sleep Schedule?

You must have heard time and time again about the health risks associated with not getting good quality and quantity of sleep, but did you know that having an irregular sleep schedule is just as bad? In fact, a study conducted on university students in Taiwan suggests that an irregular bedtime schedule and poor sleep… 

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Early Diagnosis and Treatments for Narcolepsy

We chuckle at one of Snow White’s seven dwarfs, Sleepy, who is always struggling to stay awake – able to fall asleep at the drop of a hat. Many people feel like they can identify with Sleepy, and it’s no joke: As many as 200,000 people in the United States are living with a condition… 

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Common Types of Sleep Disorders

A somnipathy, or sleep disorder, is a condition that negatively impacts a person’s sleep patterns. There are several kinds of sleep disorders, and experts often classify them based on their causes or how they affect the individual. The most common types of sleep disorders are parasomnias and dyssomnias. Let’s take a look at these two… 

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