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What is a Diagnostic Sleep Center?Our Diagnostic Sleep Centers specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep and breathing disorders. Our facilities provide private bedrooms to help ensure you feel at home during your night with us.
Sleep studies are used to assess the patient’s sleep for various sleep disorders that effect the patient’s mental and physical health. Symptoms of Sleep Disorders are commonly:
Obstructive Sleep Apnea "OSA" is the most common form of "sleep-disordered breathing", accounting for over 80% of our Sleep cases, and effecting an estimated 20 million adults in the United States. Upon falling asleep there is normally a relaxation of the body's musculature. At this point of the normal sleep process, patients with OSA experience a blockage of their airway, resulting in snoring as the air passes through these narrowed airways. As the airway fully relaxes and completely blocks the airflow – this cessation of breathing is called "apnea". The body's chemical response to this is called "fight or flight". As the brain senses the body is desperate for a breath to resupply its oxygen content – the patient often gasps and chokes as they are awakened. Often the sufferer does not realize the cycle – repeated every time they resume their effort to sleep.