Positional therapy is a behavioral strategy to treat sleep apnea. If your breathing is interrupted primarily when you are sleeping on your back, and normal when sleeping on your side or …

Positional therapy (to keep people sleeping on their side) is less invasive and therefore expected to have better adherence. This review considered the efficacy of positional therapy compared to CPAP as well as positional therapy against no positional therapy.

2024年1月5日 · In general, experts identify side sleeping as the best position for sleep apnea and back sleeping as the worst. Sleep position can play a role in both types of sleep apnea. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) occurs when a narrowed or blocked airway interferes with breathing repeatedly during sleep.

Conservative treatment of OSA can be just as crucial: lifestyle alterations such as weight reduction, abstinence of alcohol and sedatives, and avoidance of supine sleeping position, where appropriate. Significant improvement and even remission was recorded in obese patients diagnosed with OSA undergoing BS [16].

2025年2月1日 · Positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy is the gold standard for the treatment of OSA, but adherence remains an issue. Compared to non-POSA, patients with POSA tend to be less adherent with PAP. 6 Positional therapy (PT) has been an attractive alternative to the treatment of POSA.

2015年2月15日 · Many positional therapy (PT) strategies are available for treating positional obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). PT is primarily supplied to selected patients as a secondary treatment option when other therapies have failed.

2020年1月1日 · Positional therapy for OSA reduces scores on the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) and Epworth Sleepiness Scale compared with no treatment.

2021年5月1日 · Positional therapies for obstructive sleep apnea produce moderate improvements (16% to 40%) in clinical apnea measures compared with no treatment.

Using the APOC helps to discriminate between the true patient with POSA who is cured with PT (APOC I), patients who can benefit from PT but are not cured (APOC II or III), and finally patients with nonpositional OSA.

2025年1月31日 · Obstructive sleep apnea might be a risk factor for COVID-19. People with obstructive sleep apnea have been found to be at higher risk for developing a severe form of COVID-19. ... and enhance overall sleep quality. Positional therapy. Some people experience OSA primarily when sleeping on their back. Positional therapy involves side sleeping ...