Sleep Apnea and bruxing?

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Dear Frances and Doug,

 

First of all, Doug I would agree that this headache would be consistant with

bruxing.

I would also add that in bruxers (teeth grinders) I have treated, a couple of

patterns consistantly presented themselves: liver wind stirring up heart fire,

and coming from liver and kd yin xu, and sp qi and lv blood xu. I would be

curious as to whereb in the head, the headache seems to originate from

anatomically. A couple of other facts to consider: 1. Though I have heard

over and over that an assumption of kd yin or liv xue xu can't be

automatically concluded for peri and post menopausal women, I have yet to see a

woman in that age group who lives the rigors of city life and/or has given birth

and raised a family who, before treatment is not at least moderately vacuitous.

and 2. Intuitively, when I hear a woman who meditates and does yoga every day,

I sense over-thinking which damages the spleen qi, and this process just

continues to manifest during sleep with the clenching. Does she also have alot

of dreams? How is her heart pulse and the tip of her

tongue. Any signs of Heart yin xu as well? In almost all the cases I have

seen of bruxers, they had that tell tale red tip, with a thready, rapid and/or

weak heart pulse.

 

 

 

 

wrote:

I usually associate this type of headache with teeth grinding or

clenching in the night. Which

makes me wonder if apnea is defined always as constriction of the airway or is

it any kind of

sleep interruption.

doug

 

, " Frances L. Gander "

<threetreasures

wrote:

>

> I am presently treating a thin woman with sleep apnea, not the primary

> reason she came for tx. No spleen damp, but ki & liver yin def. She

> wakes up every morning with a headache. Age 50. Meditates and does

> yoga every day. She will be doing the sleep study next week. I, too,

> usually associate this symptom with overweight people.

>

> Frances Gander

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Morning headache is often due to cervical dysfunction as well. I have gotten

many pt better my treating the cervical spine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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yehuda frischman

Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:39 AM

Re: Re: Sleep Apnea and bruxing?

 

 

Dear Frances and Doug,

 

First of all, Doug I would agree that this headache would be consistant with

bruxing.

I would also add that in bruxers (teeth grinders) I have treated, a couple of

patterns consistantly presented themselves: liver wind stirring up heart fire,

and coming from liver and kd yin xu, and sp qi and lv blood xu. I would be

curious as to whereb in the head, the headache seems to originate from

anatomically. A couple of other facts to consider: 1. Though I have heard over

and over that an assumption of kd yin or liv xue xu can't be automatically

concluded for peri and post menopausal women, I have yet to see a woman in that

age group who lives the rigors of city life and/or has given birth and raised a

family who, before treatment is not at least moderately vacuitous. and 2.

Intuitively, when I hear a woman who meditates and does yoga every day, I sense

over-thinking which damages the spleen qi, and this process just continues to

manifest during sleep with the clenching. Does she also have alot of dreams? How

is her heart pulse and the tip of her

tongue. Any signs of Heart yin xu as well? In almost all the cases I have seen

of bruxers, they had that tell tale red tip, with a thready, rapid and/or weak

heart pulse.

 

 

 

 

wrote:

I usually associate this type of headache with teeth grinding or clenching in

the night. Which

makes me wonder if apnea is defined always as constriction of the airway or is

it any kind of

sleep interruption.

doug

 

, " Frances L. Gander "

<threetreasures

wrote:

>

> I am presently treating a thin woman with sleep apnea, not the primary

> reason she came for tx. No spleen damp, but ki & liver yin def. She

> wakes up every morning with a headache. Age 50. Meditates and does

> yoga every day. She will be doing the sleep study next week. I, too,

> usually associate this symptom with overweight people.

>

> Frances Gander

>

 

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