Sleep quality
Scientific studies demonstrate that sleep not only serves to restore the body after a long day, but also has a cognitive processing function. Therefore, knowing how to rest properly is important.
Sleep is divided into two major stages: the NREM phase and the REM phase. Each has different purposes, but both are important. The NREM phase is the phase that precedes deep sleep, that is, the phase of wakefulness and preparation for actual sleep. It triggers mental activity that can also be considered preparatory to the activity that emerges in REM sleep. In this last phase, mental functions are represented by dream processes that therefore pose the problem of the functions of the dream. Sleep as a biological process is therefore connected with dreaming as a mental process.
The REM phase, on the other hand, may have a specialized function for the right hemisphere to process information. REM sleep also has a reset function for the information recording system. This function would have the task of erasing irrelevant information accumulated during wakefulness and preparing the brain for the arrival of new information.
Sleep disorders
Sleep disorders are countless with different symptoms and causes. Certainly among the sleep disorders the most frequent is insomnia, most people have experienced it, in acute or milder forms. But it is not the only sleep disorder that we can encounter, in fact there are many variants:
- Insomnia, a sleep disorder characterized by the inability to sleep despite the body having a real physiological need for it. This is associated with poor daytime functioning, with symptoms such as tiredness, irritability, difficulty learning, difficulty consolidating memories.
- Hypersomnia is a diagnosis that groups together numerous sleep disorders characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness. A person with hypersomnia is unable to remain alert throughout the day: in fact, he may encounter situations of sudden sleep from which he cannot escape.
- Circadian rhythm disorders are a class of sleep disorder which involve the alteration of the sleep-wake cycle. Those who suffer from these disorders often cannot pursue appropriate sleep rhythms to live an adequate social life, to work or to study.
- Parasomnias are a diverse group of sleep disorders. These are characterized by abnormal behaviors or unusual physiological events that occur while sleeping. The best known parasomnia is sleepwalking.
How to improve sleep
So how can we help our regular sleep-wake cycle? A healthy lifestyle helps regulate sleep, but what else can you do? From today you can benefit from the countless advantages that the massage gun has on the quality of sleep. Percussive therapy, in fact, also acts on the quality of sleep.
Thanks to its ability to relax muscles and its ability to increase the supply of oxygen and nutrients and removal of waste substances from the blood circulation, the massage gun is the ideal solution for sleeping well.
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