Sleep Disorders and Symptoms
Sleep Disorders
The Inova Fair Oaks Hospital Sleep Disorders Program specializes in evaluating patients while they sleep to identify sleep disorders such as:
sleep apnea -- literally means "absence of breath" and is often associated with loud snoring
restless leg syndrome -- periodic leg movement disorder
narcolepsy -- characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks
parasomnias -- includes such difficulties as sleep walking and rapid eye movement (REM) behavioral disorders
Symptoms
Patients with sleep disorders may experience one or more of the following symptoms:
- loud snoring
- daytime sleepiness
- restless legs
- breathing disturbances during sleep
- frequent morning headaches
- sleepwalking/talking
- uncontrollable sleep attacks
