Improving Sleep Patterns

The lack of sleep or poor-quality sleep can impact all levels of a person's life. It can impact pain, inflammation, and even put a person at higher risk for injury or reinjury. Many large corporations such as Google and Nike have put investments into helping their employees sleep better to be more productive. These strategies are not unfamiliar to therapists. Therapists can help their patients using readily available items and some key strategies to improve sleep patterns to facilitate optimal recovery and function inpatients.

This workshop will give you the tools to help you educateand teach your patients about sleep and, more importantly, give you actionable strategies to help them tonight! You will be able to identify the most common pitfalls and misconceptions people have about sleep and help them benefit from improving their sleep. You will help your patients add quality and quantity to their sleep as well as their lives!

Highlights

• Top three things you and your patients can do tonight tostart getting higher quality restorative sleep
• How sleep can help every major system in your patient’s body including pain levels, healing process,cognition, motor planning, immunity, obesity, ADL performance, hormones, heart disease and stroke, depression, inflammation and even your patients’ DNA
• Interactive demonstrations of proper sleeping position to achieve maximal sleep for common conditions

Target Audience: Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Athletic Trainers