Go To Bed: The Physiotherapist's Handbook for Understanding Sleep

As physiotherapists we may ask cursory questions to our patients but sleep. But often don't feel comfortable digging deeper. There's a strong relationship between pain and sleep which means the likelihood is that a number number of people on your caseload struggle with sleep. The biopsychosocial model has been making more and more inroads into how we look at our treatment strategies, which is great. But, sleep health can often be forgotten.What I discovered was that sleep education focused for the physical therapist was sparse.I wrote this book to empower the physiotherapist with the knowledge and tools to help understand sleep health.The book is meant to be easy-to-read and digest. It's broken down into 9 chapters: Chapter 1: When Sleep Goes WrongChapter 2: Understanding Insomnia & Other Sleep ConditionsChapter 3: Drug Effects on SleepChapter 4: The Dance Between Sleep & PainChapter 5: Understanding SleepChapter 6: Evaluating SleepChapter 7: Insomnia ManagementChapter 8: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)Chapter 9: Conclusion & Next StepsAndrew Koppejan, a registered physiotherapist and founder of ignitephysio, an online learning community, has spent the better part of his medical professional life seeking to improve connection and collaboration between medical professionals for the benefit of patients. Certified in GunnIMS, Koppejan regularly works with chronic pain patients and has seen the powerful relationship between sleep and pain.Through over 170 academic articles, textbooks and popular sleep help books, Koppejan has sought answers to the enigmatic relationship between sleep and health, knowing already that "healthy sleep equals a healthy body," but missing the "why."Physiotherapists are in a unique position to deliver the keys to great sleep health and this book is the perfect concise, practical handbook to do just that.