eLecture: Sleep Treatment

Credit Total Continuing Education Credits:4.5

Tag(s) CME, eLearning, Multimedia, eLectures

Description

Augment your Functional Medicine knowledge with IFM eLectures. Earn CME and update your knowledge on cutting-edge medical topics. This eLecture package is 4.5 hours. To earn CME credit, you must complete a pre-course and a post- course survey, as well as achieve 80% or higher on the post-course test within 3 attempts.

Treat Underlying Causes to Treat Sleep

Sleep is assumed to have a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week relationship with human lifestyle, nutrition, and disease. Therefore, providers who treat sleep disorders and promote good sleep hygiene will be attending to the underlying causes of signs and symptoms in their patients. In this package of lectures, you will learn the difference between baseline sleep habits compared to sleep disorders, how to best treat veterans with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and why treating inflammation and tick-borne infections enhances the quality of sleep and decreases disease.

Bridging Sleep Medicine With Functional Medicine: Targeting Insomnia, Sleep Apnea, Narcolepsy, Circadian Disorder, and REM Disorders With a Functional Approach - Jose Colon, MD, MPH

Jose Colon, MD, MPH

As Jose Colon, MD, MPH, points out from his own educational and clinical experience, sleep typically goes unaddressed in common medical practices. Yet sleep can often be a precipitating factor in disease and illness. Accordingly, Dr. Colon provides evidence-based medicine to illustrate what “normal” sleep is in contrast to “abnormal” sleep. He outlines multiple manifestations of sleep disorders in the human body—from sleep apnea to the mimicry of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to obesity to poor relationships. Dr. Colon recommends screening for sleep disorders as a common practice.

Wounded in Action: Sleep Medicine for the Veteran Population - Henri Roca, MD; J. Vincent Roca, PhD; German Ghena Grinshpun, DO

Henri Roca, MD
J. Vincent Roca, PhD German Ghena Grinshpun, DO

Compared to the average population, veterans tend to have more chronic diseases and sleep disturbances. In this video, three experts explain the scientific evidence for the most effective approach to traumatic brain injuries (TBI), trauma-associated sleep disorders (TSD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One recommendation by the panel is for a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach that creates psychological flexibility through a non-judgmental posture toward one’s thoughts, feelings, and memories. Therapies can augment these thoughts, feelings, and memories with healthy behaviors, experiences, and events to precipitate neuroplasticity.

Addressing Sleep Disorders, Endotoxicity, and Oxidative Stress Through Therapeutic Exercise, Dietary Intervention, and Nutrition - Richard Horowitz, MD

Richard Horowitz, MD

Due to climate change, bird migration, and human travel and migration, Lyme and other tick-borne diseases are a global epidemic. However, the general medical community has relatively little understanding about Lyme and its manifestations. In this presentation, Richard Horowitz, MD, connects the basics of Lyme disease to sleep and health. He recommends that providers attend to inflammation as the major cause of sleep disorders. Addressing cytokines, including infections that increase cytokines, will reduce the severity of sleep disorders.

Important Information:

Release Date: Dec 30, 2016
Last Reviewed Date: Dec 30, 2016
Termination Date: Dec 30, 2019

The Institute for Functional Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Institute for Functional Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Your eLecture will be delivered electronically to your online account directly upon purchase.
The eLecture is provided as a streaming and downloadable video along with downloadable slides and optional mp3 audio files to take on the go.
Recordings will be available to both stream and download for one full year from your date of purchase.