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So if somebody has chronic pain, we want to manage the pain, but we still want to treat the insomnia separately. So what we'll tend to do in our sleep lab is we'll do a thorough evaluation and we usually have myself, who is a Psychologist and a Sleep Behavioral Sleep Specialist, I treat the patients first.

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I'll work on patient's thoughts about sleep, "So I must get eight hours of sleep tonight or I won't sleep tomorrow." That sometimes - or "I won't fun…

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There are some patients who just have insomnia and they've had it since they were a kid and we don't quite know why. So when we look at the cause, we…

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So the deeper stages of sleep are really those times of quiescence, you're really restoring your body and we have a few different stages of sleep.

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When you are more awake at nights, they'll toss and turn, they'll think more, they get frustrated. And when that starts to happen, you really don't s…

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So a lot of people who work rotating shifts and they work at night, their bodies are set to want to be awake during the day and sleep at night. So th…

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We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And the body actually has a natur…

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So there's a few different ways that we treat insomnia. The first thing that we always do is we look at the cause.

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