Sleep Study (Polysomnography)

Boulder Community Health partners with community providers to create an integrated sleep center where all sleep-related services are available at a single facility, including:

Office visits with a sleep specialist
Home and laboratory sleep testing
Insomnia treatment
Oral appliances
Continuous positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP)
Inspire® Upper Airway Stimulation monitoring
Our Sleep Diagnostic Center in Boulder is a fully accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), the professional medical association dedicated to assuring quality care for patients. The AASM sets standards and promotes excellence in treatment, education and research. Accreditation ensures that:

Our sleep technologists are all Registered Polysomnographic Technologists (RPSGT) — an internationally recognized credential representing the highest certification for health care professionals who clinically assess patients with sleep disorders.
Our center is equipped with the latest tools to diagnose sleep and accurately measure disorders that may occur during sleep
Symptoms of Sleep Problems
Some signs and symptoms of a potential sleep disorder include:

Difficulty falling asleep or maintaining sleep
Snoring or gasping for breath while sleeping
Feeling tired during the day
Trouble concentrating or remembering things
Depression
Hypertension or other evidence of heart disease
Morning headaches
Reduced efficiency at work
Conditions We Diagnose and Treat
BCH’s Sleep Diagnostic Center together with physicians to offer state-of-the-art diagnosis and therapy for a wide range of sleep disorders in adults and school-age children:

Circadian disorders: a group of sleep disorders due to mistiming of the biological clock
Insomnia: difficulty falling or staying asleep
Narcolepsy: Severe excessive sleepiness sometimes accompanied by cataplexy (muscle weakness associated with laughing)
Parasomnias: unusual behaviors during sleep such as sleepwalking, acting out dreams, nightmares and sleep paralysis
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) and Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMD): an uncontrollable urge to move your legs, usually experienced as leg discomfort or involuntary twitching of the limbs during sleep
Sleep apnea: pauses in breathing during sleep often accompanied by snoring. Now offering the Inspire Sleep Apnea Treatment.
Our Services
Patients receive consultations with community physicians and may undergo overnight sleep studies at our Sleep Diagnostic Center. Physicians then develop a holistic treatment plan that can include therapeutic devices, oxygen or cognitive-behavioral therapies, along with surgical or medication treatments, nutrition changes or acupuncture. Providers can clinically monitor therapy devices, such as Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) and Inspire® Upper Airway Stimulation, as well as assess therapy effectiveness.

When necessary, diagnostic results and treatment recommendations can be delivered 24 hours after a sleep study.