When you improve your sleep, you improve your health.
If your sleep habits are negatively affecting your everyday life, we’re here to help.
At Memorial Hermann, we understand that not sleeping well can be emotionally and physically draining. Sleep deprivation can affect your personal relationships, work and overall health. If you feel like your sleep habits are negatively impacting your daily life, it’s time to talk to your health care provider about your options.
With over eight nationally accredited Sleep Disorders Centers, we can help identify if you may have a sleep disorder. The results from a sleep study may help your health care provider diagnose your condition, and recommend a plan of treatment for more restful sleep.
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Over 30 million people suffer from Sleep Apnea. In this episode, we’re joined by Kevin Gaffney, Neurologist and Sleep Medicine Specialist at Mischer Neuroscience Associates, who discusses the long-term effects of sleep apnea and how a sleep study can help in the diagnosis of this disorder.
“Nutrition is the backbone of your health,” says Dr. Claire Kim, DO, family medicine physician at Memorial Hermann Medical Group (MHMG) Fairfield. “If you eat well, you’re more likely to sleep well—and vice versa.”
While you are sleeping at night, your body is hard at work. It may seem like sleep is a time of inaction, but it is actually a time of complex growth and restoration. The natural sleep cycle provides the time your body needs to refresh itself, down to the cellular level, to optimize health and fu...
If only it was that simple, says Dr. Ruckshanda Majid, MD, co-medical director of the Memorial Hermann Sleep Disorders Center at Texas Medical Center. “If you’re struggling to sleep, picking one intervention may not be enough. We must take sleep seriously and do what’s known to ...
Sleepiness should be reserved for nighttime so you and your family’s daytime can be spent being productive.
You snooze, you lose? No—you win. A good night’s slumber makes us mentally crisp. But that’s not all.
We’ve all been there. You travel long-distance for a holiday homecoming or the trip of a lifetime, but then you arrive so exhausted that you sleep-walk through the first few days. You don’t have to, says Kendrick Watkins, MD, family medicine doctor with Memorial Hermann Medical Group ...
Trying to get ZZZs next to a chainsaw is no snooze fest. “Almost everyone snores on occasion,” says Sreekrishna K. Donepudi, MD, otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon with Memorial Hermann Medical Group Sugar Land MultiSpecialty.
With locations throughout the Greater Houston area, Memorial Hermann Sleep Disorders Centers offers adults and children convenient access to sleep studies. If you have a physician’s referral, please contact one of our Centers to schedule a sleep study.
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