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Your Sleep Disorder may be Caused by Your House Pets

Environmental sleep disorders include any sleep disturbances that are caused by conditions related to one’s external surroundings. These disturbances may include noise such as that of a crying baby or music emanating from the apartment next door, movement caused by

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How Good Sleep Helps Neck and Back Pain Sufferers Stay Active

A new study titled “Better Quality Sleep Promotes Daytime Physical Activity in Patients with Chronic Pain? A Multilevel Analysis of the Within-Person Relationship” indicates that sufferers of chronic pain can help to maintain their physical mobility by improving the quality

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Individuals with a Sleep-Breathing Disorder May be Impacting Neurons Responsible for Keeping Heart Rate Low

Among the numerous tasks performed by the human brainstem, one of the most vital is that of regulating the body’s cardiovascular system, which relies on neurons based in the brainstem to maintain a low resting heart rate. According to a

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Myths and Truths About Bedtime Habits and Insomnia

People with chronic insomnia try many tricks to fall asleep. While some help, some have been shown to make sleep harder.

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Sleep Test: Check Your Sleep Quality with a Short Quiz

The sleep specialists at RNI have put together an online survey to help visitors assess the quality of their sleep based on their waking experiences.

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Patient’s Migraines Caused by Sleep Problems | Rowe Neurology Institute

An RNI patient got rid of her migraines and migraine medications when her sleep breathing disorder was diagnosed and fixed. It’s a great example of how RNI’s cross-disciplinary approach brings results, and how RNI’s original research helps patients directly.

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Skinny People Have Sleep Apnea Too

Sleep apnea has long been though of as a fat, old man’s disease. That stereotype may be contributing to significant health consequences for people with normal Body Mass Index (BMI), especially women.

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Extra Hour of Sleep and Still Tired?

What if you still feel tired and don’t feel refreshed when the alarm rings? Or your focus and concentration is “off” at work. Maybe you lightly doze off at the red light waiting for it to turn green.

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Most Common Causes of Migraines Don’t Require Drugs

Drugs often fail because they don’t fix the underlying causes of headache triggers. In this video, Dr. Rowe presents the connection between the spine and headache, and how the solution to headaches must consider the whole patient.

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Do Multiple Sclerosis Drugs Work?

Dr. Rowe reacts to a recent study, which is reporting that the MS drugs widely used to reduce relapses or MS flare-ups, specifically interferon beta, do not slow progression toward disability. 

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