Inspire Device for Sleep Apnea in Paducah, KY

Obstructive sleep apnea is a serious medical condition because it involves periods of time during your sleep where you're not breathing, and that puts an extra strain on your heart and lungs, which can be very, adverse in terms of the consequences to your overall health.

It doesn't always manifest as big health issues initially but over time can really cause, issues with our heart and our lungs especially.

Most patients who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea are able to tolerate a CPAP mask. For patients who aren't able to tolerate a mask, then the Inspire may be an option for them.

It's a surgery where we make an incision in your neck and we hook a cuff around the nerve that controls your tongue and it helps protrude your tongue out and keep your throat wall intact and open whenever you're breathing in and out and sleeping at night.

Six weeks after the surgery they activate it. I would say within ten to twelve days of, you know, it's the difference, major difference of just sleeping better, just deeper sleep, REM sleep, you know. I would never go back to a CPAP after having Aspire. It's the difference between daylight and dark.

The goal of treating these patients is to make people healthier, to get people to be in a spot where they feel like they can do everyday living without feeling tired and run down, and to get them feeling back to themselves.