Dr. Brian Wind Earns Board Certification

Dr. Brian Wind Earns Board Certification Posted on: 2008-04-02 | by Sleep Center Congratulations to Dr. Brian Wind, clinical director of the Sleep Centers of Middle Tennessee Congratulations to Dr. Brian Wind, clinical director of the Sleep Centers of Middle

Tennessee, on earning his board certification in behavioral sleep medicine (BSM).

The board certification in BSM is one of the American Academy of Sleep

Medicine's (AASM) newer board certifications. In fact, Dr. Wind is only the second

person residing on the state of Tennessee and the ninety-third person in the

United States to hold this certification. The BSM certification indicates expertise in

the areas of assessment, diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of sleep

disorders. One particular area in which Dr. Wind will focus his expertise is

cognitive-behavioral treatment of insomnia, the new treatment of choice for

insomnia according to recent research. Insomnia can occur as a transient,

situational type problem (often related to factors such as stress, poor sleeping

environment, jet lag, shift work, or medication side effects, to name a few).

Alternatively, insomnia can be more of a chronic problem that perseveres through

all types of situational factors, stressors, and emotional states. Regardless of the

type of insomnia one has, the root problems may be best described in terms of

three important factors:

1) PREDISPOSING FACTORS - such as a family history of problems with insomnia, medical/psychological disorders, personality type. 2) PRECIPITATING FACTORS - such as loss of a job, stress, bereavement. 3) PERPETUATING FACTORS - habits or behaviors that serve to worsen/promote your difficulties with insomnia, such as watching TV in bed when you can't sleep, abusing sleep aides, catastrophizing about being unable to sleep. Cognitive-behavioral treatment of insomnia focuses mainly on the perpetuating

factors involved in insomnia. Dr. Wind's expertise has taught him that use of

specific cognitive-behavioral techniques to cease the perpetuating factors and

promote new, healthy sleep habits dramatically improves insomnia. Perhaps most

remarkable is the fact that this is done without medication, and thus far Dr. Wind's

results with patients have been fantastic. At the end of Dr. Wind's cognitive-

behavioral treatment of insomnia program, a patient has acquired a set of tools to

use autonomously on a long term basis to treat insomnia.

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