Why You Need to Use Your CPAP if You Have High Blood Pressure

If you have sleep apnea and your doctor has recommended the use of a CPAP or continuous positive air pressure machine while you sleep, you should be following his recommendation.  But if you have sleep apnea and high blood pressure, new research indicates that using...

Does Sleep Tracking Tech Really Help You Sleep?

Apps and technology tools that help us track everything about our lives are the newest craze and one of the things everyone seems to want to track is their sleep.   But is it possible to get accurate sleep data from nothing more than your smartphone and some...

5 Tips for Cleaning and Caring for Your CPAP Equipment

5 Tips for Cleaning and Caring for Your CPAP Equipment Cleaning and maintaining your CPAP equipment is a very important part of treating your sleep apnea.  You should have been taught how to clean and maintain your equipment when it was first delivered to you, but...

How to Use and Clean Your CPAP Equipment

CPAP/Bi-level Overview What it is: A CPAP or Bi-level machine delivers air through a mask while a patient sleeps. CPAP is a pressure to help your airway stay inflated during sleep. Bi-level also has helps to keep the airway open during sleep on a different manner. It...

5 Apps that Test How Well You Sleep

If you are struggling to get the sleep you need all you need to do is take your phone to bed with you.  Don’t worry, you won’t have to use any of your minutes.  All you have to do is download one of these great apps that track your sleep cycle so you can see what is...

Spotlight On: REM Behavior Disorder

Most people know that there are several different stages of sleep.  Over the course of each night, we move in and out of the different stages in cycles.  Even though there are several stages of sleep, the sleep we get at each stage falls into only one of two...