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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.
