Sleep Medicine

Sleep medicine is a field of medicine that treats different sleep disorders themselves and how they affect the health and quality of life of people who suffer. Among the most common sleep disorders have:

• Insomnia
  It defines the conditional difficulty falling asleep and / or waking up very easily, for more than a month period. It is characterized by at least one of the following conditions:
• Anxiety or excessive worry about sleep.
  Difficulty falling asleep at bedtime or naps planned, but not at other times of the day in which are held drudgery and where there is no intention to sleep.
  Mental overactivity, intrusive thoughts or inability to stop the mental activity that keep the subject awake.
  Improved sleep outside the usual environment and bedroom.
  Somatic excessive tension in bed, incapacitating relaxation and prevents sleep.
• Restless Leg Syndrome
  It is a sleep disorder characterized by an imperious and irresistible urge to move the legs. Very often, but not always, It accompanied by uncomfortable tingling in the legs. The need to move and possible tingles worsen with rest, and usually improve albeit temporarily, almost immediately, walking or moving your legs. Usually worse in the afternoons and evenings, while its intensity decreases considerably in the mornings. It appears in the sleep-wake transition, when the patient is still awake, making it difficult to fall asleep at the beginning of the night or after nighttime awakenings. Although, as its name suggests, predominantly affects the lower extremities, symptoms may also occur in the upper extremities.
• Periodic limb movement
  It is a disorder characterized by periodic episodes of repetitive limb movements during sleep. These usually occur in the legs and are characterized by an extension of the first toe, partial flexion ankle, knee and at times, the hip joint. Among episode and episode, the legs are static. The movements are often associated with partial arousals. Sin embargo, the person is usually not aware of the movements or arousals. Asimismo, excessive sleepiness or insomnia manifests.
• Sleep apnea (SAUCE)
  Is the presence, during sleep, repeated episodes of complete obstruction of the upper airway (throat or pharynx). This syndrome occurs because the activity of the dilator muscles of the pharynx, responsible for opening the upper airway, It is reduced during sleep. As a result of blockages occur arousals, that disturb sleep, causing people to get up in the morning tired, without feeling sleep and you tend to fall asleep easily during the day.