What are Sleep Disorders?

Series Summary

Sleep is a very important part of everyone's day. Commonly described as a sleep pattern, people have developed interesting ways of disrupting this resting routine in a variety of ways. Unwillingly deciding to take cat naps, waking in the middle of the night to move our legs and even walking aimlessly are just a few of the methods man has invoked as an answer to weariness. This eight hour daily regiment plagues our weekends and Sunday afternoons with disorders and activity for no apparent reason but to encourage the necessity of more sleep. Of course sleep disorders may find their end in time, but until then people should look towards treatment and proper diagnosis, so as to regain our rudimentary passion for rest.

In this free video series our medical expert Taylor Smith will address several interesting components of sleep disorders. You'll learn about obstructive sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome and even insomnia. Taylor will thoroughly introduce both the causes and treatments to these ailments as well as some common misconceptions about sleep disorders. You'll learn about your sleep patterns and whether or not you should seek medical attention or guidance. Watch this video series and put your bad sleeping habits to rest.

Video Transcript

"Today we're going to be talking about the world of sleep disorders and touching upon a few particular sleep disorders, as it were. A sleep disorder is just like it sounds. It's any sort or illness, or affliction, or complication that causes a person to be disordered in their sleep or in a part of their sleep. We'll be talking about the most common sleep disorder that is experienced in the sleep disorder office which is obstructive sleep apnea. We'll also be touching upon some of the other sleep disorders that we would see in the office. In American society, in North American society, in general, people, in general, whether they have a sleep disorder or not don't get enough sleep. We need about eight to nine hours as adults. And most people exist on many, many less. In the course of a seven day week if you look at the five day work week, it's not uncommon for somebody to run on four or five hours sleep. And for every hour you run under eight you accumulate a sleep debt. So, for example, if you only sleep five hours Monday night, you may have a two to three hour sleep debt for that night. If you only sleep six hours the next, you can add another hour or two. That's why most of us sleep in on the weekends if not spend the majority of our time on the weekends, trying to catch up to that weekly debt."