Our technologically-advanced center provides spacious rooms, with separate climate control, cable television and comfortable beds. Onsite sleep studies are conducted by registered technologists and a board certified sleep medicine physician is available and specializes in all aspects of care.
Once you arrive, a qualified and registered sleep technologist with explain the procedures to you. Each evaluation consists of placing small electrodes on the surface of your head, face and legs for the recording of sleep patterns. Airflow, heart rate, muscle activity, brain waves and blood oxygen levels are monitored. Patients are videotaped to correlate body movements with physiological changes.
Sleep Disorders in Children
Sleep problems are one of the most common concerns for parents. In fact, sleep problems have been estimated to affect 25 percent of children. Sleep is important for physical, mental and emotional growth in children. Both the quality and the quantity of your child’s sleep are important.
We provide pediatric sleep studies for children as early as newborns. Our experienced, registered technologists provide a friendly and safe environment for your child’s sleep needs. A board certified sleep medicine physician is available and specializes in all aspects of care of the sleep disorder patient.
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A number of treatments for sleep disorders are available. Physician referral is required for individuals to be evaluated at the center. Daytime studies are available for patients with restrictive work schedules.
CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Sleep Center - Marshall is an outpatient department of CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Medical Center - Marshall.
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Good Shepherd Sleep Center - Marshall
Services & Treatments
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Circadian Rhythm Disorders CRD
Circadian rhythm disorders (CRD) is most commonly caused by shift work or multi-time zone air travel, CRDs are disruptions of the body's internal clock, which may cause sleepiness and/or insomnia at inappropriate times.
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Insomnia
Many individuals can have difficulty falling asleep due to stress; however, chronic insomnia may be caused by a variety of triggers, such as depression, anxiety, prolonged poor sleeping habits including unnatural sleeping schedules or restless leg syndrome.
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Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy is characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks during the day, extreme sleepiness, falling asleep during an activity, losing muscle tone due to feelings of anger, surprise, amusement, or stress.
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Pediatric Sleep Apnea
Sleep problems are one of the most common concerns for parents. In fact, sleep problems have been estimated to affect 25 percent of children.
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Periodic Limb Movements
Restless leg syndrome is characterized by involuntary leg movement or leg jerks occurring frequently during the night or the uncontrollable need to move or walk off the leg cramps can be caused by nocturnal myoclonus or restless leg syndrome.
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Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is a condition that causes the throat's air passage to close repeatedly during sleep, stopping breathing and disrupting the normal stages of sleep.
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Sleep Medicine
We work with adults and children with many types of symptoms related to sleeping disorders, such as poor sleep habits, insomnia or sleep apnea. Sleep disorders affect not only the person with the disorder, but also people around them.
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