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Poor sleep quality can be related to many common health problems:

  • Daytime sleepiness
  • High blood pressure
  • Diabetes
  • Obesity
  • Impaired decision making
  • Lowered immune system
  • Poor concentration
  • Lower stress tolerance
  • Decreased libido
  • Increased irritability
  • Increased pain sensitivity
  • Poor school performance
  • Strain on relationships
 
 

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SLEEPING SECRETS FOR BABY (nineMSN - Today) - Infant sleep expert Dr Alex Bartle joined TODAY with some tips on how to put your baby to sleep.

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  • Today
  • nineMSN
  • 02 May 2012

CAN PEOPLE CHOOSE WHAT THEY DREAM ABOUT? (TVNZ - Breakfast) - Dr Alex Bartle comments on a new iPhone app developed to influence dreams.

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  • Breakfast
  • TV One
  • 17 April 2012

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS of SLEEP HYGIENE (TVNZ - Breakfast) - On World Sleep Day, sleep expert Dr Alex Bartle talks about healthy sleep habits.

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  • Breakfast
  • TV One
  • 16 March 2012

DO WE REALLY NEED SLEEPING PILLS TO REST? (TVNZ - Breakfast) - Sleep expert Dr Alex Bartle reveals the results of a sleeping pill study.

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  • Breakfast
  • TV One
  • 13 March 2012

 

 

 

 
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DR ALEX BARTLE and his team of health professionals at the SLEEP WELL CLINIC
provide comprehensive assessment and treatment services
throughout New Zealand for children and adults suffering sleep disorders
such as SNORING, SLEEP APNOEA, INSOMNIA, and PARASOMNIAS.

   
 

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Snoring   Apnoea   Insomnia
Snoring

Snoring can be always be treated, but different people are more suited to particular treatments. The Sleep Well Clinic will take a comprehensive history and use a home sleep study to find the right snoring treatment for you.

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  Sleep Apnoea

Obstructive sleep apnoea occurs when snoring has become bad enough that the airway is sucked shut for up to a minute at a time, repeatedly throughout the night. The Sleep Well Clinic will test for and treat sleep apnoea.

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  Insomnia

Insomnia includes all forms of difficulty getting to or staying asleep. Insomnia can affect anyone at different times and includes shift workers and sufferers from jet lag. The Sleep Well Clinic will help you control your insomnia.

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Sleeping in the aftermath of the Canterbury Earthquakes.sleep-earthquake

The tragedy and stresses from the Canterbury Earthquakes have left frayed nerves and problems sleeping. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Canterbury, and we would like to offer some simple techniques to help people get some better sleep.
  • Write your fears and concerns down in a notebook before going to bed. This helps define the things on your mind and lets you "lay them to rest" for the night through the action of writing, rather than leaving them to play over and over in your mind as you try to sleep. Have a checklist of things you want to have to hand such as a water bottle, your transister radio, a torch, and know where you will shelter in the event of a large aftershock.
  • If you have water and power still on have a hot shower right before going to bed. This raises your body temperature so that when you are in bed it is beginning to fall. A falling body temperature helps initiate sleep physiologically.
  • Avoid clock-watching through the night. Looking at the clock will link the wake episodes together in your mind by "time-stamping" them, which has the perceptual effect of running the wake periods together in your mind so it seems as if you have been awake for hours.
  • Keep some quiet background sound or quiet music playing, especially for children.
  • Keep a dim light going - everything is more frightening or disturbing in the dark.

If you or your loved ones persist in having problems getting to sleep or staying asleep it might be worth a visit with the doctors at the Sleep Well Clinic to help prevent a long-lasting pattern of poor sleep being established particularly in the weeks and months to come once the aftershocks have stopped.

 

       
  Material available on this website relating to sleep disorders should not be considered individual medical advice. Symptoms relating to sleep disorders should be brought to the attention of a doctor as soon as possible.
 
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