Sleep’s Role in Medical Recoveries

Brian Yalung — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:15:38 +0000

At some point, most of us would find ourselves needing to undergo surgeries or medical procedures to attend to various problems we may encounter with the human body. One key point here is the recovery period to which our overall health assessment will surely be something to monitor. The speed at which we recover may pretty well be dependent on the condition we are in and sleep has something to do with it.

Sleep helps relax and regenerate our body to required health. Lacking sleep is a good direction towards doing the exact opposite such as weakening some internal body attributes such as our immune system. Sleep is more than just making us relax, it is also about how our overall health can be assessed and there will come a point where it will come into play.

(Source) Disrupted sleep, the authors note, can cause problems with the immune system, infection resistance and wound healing — all of obvious importance to patients recovering from illness or injury.

While the patients studied did get an average of eight hours of sleep during the time they were studied, it was not good sleep.

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Sleep’s Role in Medical Recoveries