I have often in these virtual pages emphasized the importance of sleep in reducing the severity of chronic pain. Sleep has been shown in fibromyalgia studies to be extremely important in reducing the pain fibromyalgia patients experience, and a lack of sleep appears to contribute to the misery restless legs syndrome (RLS) patients experience.
Insomnia affects 10% to 20% of the United States population. Among the elderly, the percentage of those affected is 47%. For the year 2007, it is...
