Sleep therapy can be defined as pharmacologically induced sleep for approximately 20 hours a day for an extended period, such as Epiphaneum reintroduced in 1915. It was adopted by Klaesi for the treatment of schizophrenia in 1922 and used in conditions ranging from manic and catatonic arousal, through severe anxiety and depression, to various forms of schizophrenia. Several drug combinations had been used to induce and maintain sleep. In 1971, Pflug and Tolle found sleep deprivation therapeutic in endogenous depression. The effectiveness of these treatments is based on a chronobiological hypothesis of depression, which indicates that people with major depressive disorder may have alterations in the internal regulation of rapid eye movements (REM), propensity to sleep, temperature, cortisol and melatonin.
Light therapies have also been found to be beneficial in reducing symptoms, as it modulates and synchronizes these circadian rhythms. Women with PMDD have been reported to have decreased melatonin amplitudes, higher nighttime body temperatures, and alterations in the time and amplitude of prolactin and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) secretion. Microcurrent therapy (MCT) applies very weak currents (below the sensitivity threshold) and works perhaps mainly as a placebo. Interferential current therapy applies two independent therapeutic circuits (at least two pairs of electrodes) of different but not very different frequencies simultaneously to the same region of the body.
Typical indications for TENS therapy include arthritis, back pain of various origins, cervicogenic headache (including migraine), neuralgia (intercostal, trigeminal and postherpetic), neuropathies (such as diabetic), reflex sympathetic dystrophy, Raynaud's syndrome and other disorders of peripheral blood circulation, allergic rhinitis, chronic sinusitis, bronchial asthma, spastic colon, renal colic, enuresis (children), atonic urinary bladder, atonic uterus (absence of hysterospasm pain), surgery, menstrual pain, pain oncological, phantom pain and toothache. Electrosleep therapy can be useful for managing stress, anxiety and psychosis, as well as for controlling drug addiction, motion sickness and all psychosomatic illnesses, including insomnia. Sleep therapy is a powerful tool that can help with sleep disorders such as insomnia as well as other mental and physical health conditions. It works by realigning underlying circadian clocks through light therapies or by using drug combinations to induce and maintain sleep.
Chronobiological research indicates that people with major depressive disorder may have alterations in the internal regulation of rapid eye movements (REM), propensity to sleep, temperature, cortisol and melatonin which occur throughout the 24-hour daily cycle. Microcurrent therapy (MCT) applies very weak currents (below the sensitivity threshold) while interferential current therapy applies two independent therapeutic circuits (at least two pairs of electrodes) of different but not very different frequencies simultaneously to the same region of the body. Typical indications for TENS therapy include arthritis, back pain of various origins, cervicogenic headache (including migraine), neuralgia (intercostal, trigeminal and postherpetic), neuropathies (such as diabetic), reflex sympathetic dystrophy, Raynaud's syndrome and other disorders of peripheral blood circulation. Electrosleep therapy can be useful for managing stress, anxiety and psychosis as well as controlling drug addiction, motion sickness and all psychosomatic illnesses including insomnia.
