ArticleScientific reports2015
Treatment of snoring with positional therapy in patients with positional obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
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- The Potential Effect of Changing Patient Position on Snoring: A Systematic Review.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- Risk factors for non-positional obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2022Article
- Memory Foam Pillow as an Intervention in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: A Preliminary Randomized Study.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Screening Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children with Snoring.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Snoring Sound Characteristics are Associated with Common Carotid Artery Profiles in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.Nature and science of sleep · 2021Article
- Can positional therapy be simple, effective and well tolerated all together? A prospective study on treatment response and compliance in positional sleep apnea with a positioning pillow.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2018Article
- Subjective effects of the sleep position trainer on snoring outcomes in position-dependent non-apneic snorers.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2018Article
- Practice recommendations for the role of physiotherapy in the management of sleep disorders: the 2022 Brazilian Sleep Association Guidelines.Sleep science (Sao Paulo, Brazil)Review
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Abstract
Position therapy plays a role in treating snoring and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). The purpose of this study was to investigate whether position therapy using a head-positioning pillow (HPP) could reduce snoring sounds in patients with mild-to-moderate positional OSAS, taking into account the potential confounding effects of body weight. A total of 25 adults with positional OSAS (apnea-hypopnea index [AHI]supine:AHInon-supine ≥ 2) were prospectively enrolled. Patients were asked to use their own pillows at home during the first night (N0), and the HPP during the second (N1) and third (N2) nights. The primary outcome measures included the subjective snoring severity (SS, measured on a visual analogue scale ranging from 0 to 10) and the objective snoring index (SI, expressed as the number of snoring events per hour measured on an acoustic analytical program). Both endpoints were recorded over three consecutive nights. From N0 to N2, the median SS and SI values in the entire study cohort decreased significantly from 5.0 to 4.0 and from 218.0 events/h to 115.0 events/h, respectively. In the subgroup of overweight patients, SS showed a significant improvement, whereas SI did not. Both SS and SI were found to be significantly improved in normal-weight patients.
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