Blue light therapy for sleep disorders.
Light therapy for sleep maintenance insomnia.
Your body has an internal clock that tells it when it is time to be asleep and when it is time to be awake.
Look for the insomnia link.
You ll learn a lot at that website that can really help you out whether it s depression anxiety or pain that s causing your sleep maintenance insomnia.
Phototherapy also called light therapy is an effective therapy for people whose insomnia is due to a problem called delayed sleep phase syndrome.
Insomnia dsps and asps.
I highly recommend you read the article.
Colleen ehrnstrom the author of end the insomnia struggle states healthy sleep is a balance between processes in your body e g melatonin sleep drive cortisol etc and processes in your environment e g light and temperature.
Also in my newsletter sleep chat i ve written a detailed article about a technique called stimulus control instructions.
This clock is located in the brain just above an area where the nerves travel to the eyes.
This area is called the scn.
In some cases light therapy can be helpful for people with insomnia.
Morning bright light therapy is also indicated for the related problem of delayed sleep phase disorder.
The goal of light therapy is to optimize the synergy between these two.
April 27 2016 by sound sleep health.
New technology and research on circadian rhythm dysfunction has opened up opportunities to apply therapy using blue spectrum light to help reset the body clock.
If you are working with your primary care doctor or a sleep specialist for insomnia you can ask if this is an appropriate treatment for you.
Light therapy can help some sufferers of insomnia.