Common Sleep Disorders:

• Insomnia - The most common sleep complaint. Poor sleep attributed to difficulty falling asleep and waking up prematurely.
• Sleep Apnea - The most severe and widespread sleep-related breathing disorder. Symptoms include difficulty of breathing or stoppage of breath during sleep, trouble staying awake during the day, headaches and snoring. Potentially life threatening, believed to be an independent risk factor for high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and stroke.
• Narcolepsy - Patients complain of being so tired they fall asleep even after a full night's sleep. Other symptoms include cataplexy, a sudden loss of muscle function, sleep paralysis and frightening hallucinations.
• Parasomnias - Abnormal physical behaviors that occur while sleeping that include sleepwalking, night-terrors, REM behavior disorder (violence while dreaming), rhythmic movement disorder (banging of head or rocking of body while sleeping), bed-wetting and teeth-grinding.
• Other Disorders - Snoring, hypersomnia, restless legs syndrome, periodic limb movements in sleep, delayed sleep phase syndrome and advanced sleep phase syndrome.