OVERVIEW:
Sleep disorders often occur along with other medical conditions or mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, or cognitive disorders. Common sleeping disorders include but are not limited to insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome (RLS), parasomnias, REM sleep behavior disorder and non 2-hour sleep wake disorder. Common causes of chronic insomnia include Stress, concerns with work, school, health, finances, or family can keep your mind active at night, making it difficult to sleep. Stressful life events or trauma such as the loss or illness of a loved one, divorce, or a job loss.

SYMPTOMS:
Sleep disorders involve problems with the quality, timing, and amount of sleep. Common symptoms that stem from sleep disorders are difficulty falling asleep, waking up frequently in the middle of sleeping, fatigue, and feelings of low energy throughout the day, loud snoring or gasping during sleep, waking up and feeling exhausted, unusual breathing patterns, and unusual or unpleasant urges to move while falling asleep. If left untreated, sleep disorders can result in a few health problems including hypertension, stroke, arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy, heart failure, diabetes, obesity and heart attacks.

TREATMENT:
At Acupuncture Wellness Services, we use a combination of modalities and techniques to regulate the flow of energy in the body to achieve outstanding results.  The extensive training and experience of our practitioners enables them to successfully blend time-tested and ancient treatment protocols with modern and sophisticated therapies.  One of the greatest benefits of our procedure is the ability to detect and correct energetic sensitivities to foods and the environment that might be creating symptoms in your body.  Each patient is treated individually, and so the combination of techniques is determined at the time of evaluation.  Our treatments integrate well with western medicine, chiropractic, massage therapy, occupational therapy, dental work and nutritional healing.