Examining relationships between sleep posture, waking spinal symptoms and quality of sleep: A cross sectional study

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 16; no. 11; p. e0260582
• Main Authors: Cary, Doug, Jacques, Angela, Briffa, Kathy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 30.11.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Anxiety; Apnea; Arthritis; Biology and Life Sciences; Consent; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Home environment; Humans; Insomnia; Male; Medicine and Health Sciences; Middle Aged; Muscle pain; Patients; Physical Sciences; Physical therapy; Physiological aspects; Posture; Quality management; Questionnaires; Sleep; Sleep and wakefulness; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - etiology; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - physiopathology; Sleep disorders; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - etiology; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - physiopathology; Sleep positions; Sleep Quality; Spinal Diseases - complications; Spinal Diseases - physiopathology; Spine - physiopathology; Australia; Western Australia Australia

Research with a focus on sleep posture has been conducted in association with sleep pathologies such as insomnia and positional obstructive sleep apnoea. Research examining the potential role sleep posture may have on waking spinal symptoms and quality of sleep is however limited. The aims of this r...