Four years ago, 57,679 veterans were receiving disability compensation based on a diagnosis of sleep apnea. Last year, those numbers nearly doubled to 114,103, leading former naval aviator and family law attorney,...
The offering of professional sleep solutions can complement existing care provided to individuals on a disability claim. Sleep disorders, such as insomnia and nightmares, often coexist with physical and mental health conditions, exacerbating recovery challenges and extending disability...
Attorney afflicted by sleep apnea loses disability fight, says Oregon Court of AppealsPat Murphy
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In other words, those respondents with TOS who had a higher level of arm, shoulder, and hand disability also experienced greater sleep problems. The partial correlation established after controlling for the significance of age indicates the presence of a statistically significant association between ...
material showed that 66.45% of MS patients had insomnia, and 41.45% presented with daytime sleepiness. The QoL of respondents was assessed as average (50.73). Univariate linear regression model analysis showed the effects of professional status, daytime sleepiness, insomnia, and degree of disability ...
emphasising the need for the early detection and management of cardiovascular risk factors and CVEs in pSS to balance their major impact on hospitalisation rate, disability outcomes, and quality of life. Further prospective studies are needed to confirm these results and to explain the underlying pat...
Item 5 of the MOS-SS questionnaire refers to sleep disruption as a cause of a headache or sleep apnea. Our results showed that sleep disruptions were related to the presence of migraines, to higher migraine intensity, and to an increase of migraine-related disability level. Due to our sample...
(total sleep time, total bedtime, sleep efficiency, number of awakenings, percentage, and latency of NREM1, NREM2, REM, and slow-wave sleep) in five different groups: young, healthy older people, subjects with depression, subjects with dementia, and subjects with obstructive sleep apnea ...
Third, in the presence of a clinical continuum of nocturnal manifestations, it might be useful to add a distress/disability criterion in the ICSD-3 manual, in line with the DSM-5 criterion D (see Table 1). This additional criterion might guide physicians in the clinical management and treatme...