Ask Dr. Park About Sleep Apnea

On January 5th, 2010, at 8PM, join me for another of my “Ask Dr. Park” teleseminars where I answer your most important questions about how to better manage and take control of your sleep apnea.

For this teleseminar, I’ll reveal what I’ve discovered over many years in practice as THE : “7 Habits of Highly Successful Sleep Apnea Patients.”

Here are the details:

What: Ask Dr. Park teleseminar on ”7 Habits of Highly Successful Sleep Apnea Patients.”

When: Tuesday, January 5th, 2010, 8PM Eastern / 5PM Pacific

Where: From the comfort of your own home, via telephone

Cost: Free for the live call.

Click here to register: http://doctorstevenpark.com/ask-dr-park

Kind of smells like . . . ?

Dr. Park, thanks for letting us know about this, another opportunity to avail ourselves to your experience. You probably already know that some forum members quote you from time to time. Thanks again.

Thanks for the heads up, Dr. Park.

sypark wrote:On January 5th, 2010, at 8PM, join me for another of my “Ask Dr. Park” teleseminars where I answer your most important questions about how to better manage and take control of your sleep apnea.

For this teleseminar, I’ll reveal what I’ve discovered over many years in practice as THE : “7 Habits of Highly Successful Sleep Apnea Patients.”

Here are the details:

What: Ask Dr. Park teleseminar on ”7 Habits of Highly Successful Sleep Apnea Patients.”

When: Tuesday, January 5th, 2010, 8PM Eastern / 5PM Pacific

Where: From the comfort of your own home, via telephone

Cost: Free for the live call.

Click here to register: http://doctorstevenpark.com/ask-dr-park

Much appreciated, Dr. Park.

I could have sworn "“7 Habits of Highly Successful Sleep Apnea Patients.” sounded familiar. And it was...

http://www.articlesbase.com/sleep-artic ... 28963.html

Similar to "7 Habits of Highly Successful CPAP Patients."
http://www.articlesbase.com/sleep-artic ... 28960.html

Of course, a live teleseminar with free phone call and chance to ask a question is a plus.

I'm afraid that I'm not familiar with Dr Park, but (barring any notes to the contrary here) I'll assume that he is a legitimate and credible source.

re the 7 Habits of Highly Successful Sleep Apnea Patients, might one habit be to collect daily therapy data (and review it frequently) in order to optimize the xPAP use to maximum success? (And further, to eliminate leaks if shown by data to be present and to make, or have a DME make, prudent modifications to pressures or pressure ranges in order to optimize the treatment to maximum therapeutic value based on the data?)

Perhaps I'm torturing the word "habit" here, and if so...mea culpa.





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In the second link I posted.. to the similarly named "7 Habits of Successful CPAP Patients" (instead of "Sleep Apnea Patients")... Dr. Park's point #5 seems to agree with your good observation, Captain_Midnight:

5. They constantly monitor the data from their machines to work with the sleep doctor and equipment company, making constant adjustments and fine tuning various settings.

The only thing that worries me here is that Dr. Park seems to be cropping up more and more on the forum in one way or another and I would hate to see people beginning to assume that, while he may be very knowledgable, he is some kind of guru, and ignore or reject much of what else is out there in OSA research land. The science is too new to be coming to final conclusions yet and I think we should just keep that in mind.

Dr. Park,

Thank you so much for the notice. I regularly read your articles on the web site and Santa brought me a copy of your book, Sleep, Interrupted.

Thanks for all the effort and passion you are putting into SDB. I am using your web site to increase the level of awareness in my friends, family and associates. Many of them are in desperate need of diagnosis and treatment. I am emailing a few of them the link to your December 23 article, Sleep Apnea Denial, http://doctorstevenpark.com/sleep-apnea-denial .

Julie, I would have to say that his success rate with his pt's has to speak for itself. As does the success rate of my ENT. This is one place where numbers really matter. I have seen and heard of way too many people having surgery and saying how bad it was or that it made them worst. I have not heard anyone say this about Dr. Park.

He is very knowledgeable and shares his many thoughts with us. Some people think he out there on some things he says but that will happen when you share your thoughts and are looking for input back. If we didn't have people who put themselves out there and let their thoughts or ideas be known we wouldn't be as far as we are with CPAP.

Rooster, that is one good book. I read it once, went back over some things I highlighted and am planning on reading it again. I was hoping to read it sooner but this successful treatement of my OSA happened and I haven't forgotten all of it yet.

Gerry

Julie wrote: I would hate to see people... ignore or reject much of what else is out there in OSA research land.

Given our motley and analytically argumentative "vast crowd"... I honestly don't think you have much to worry about, Julie.

-SWS wrote:Given our "vast crowd"...

Does this also encompass the "unruly mob", or

......are we on our own?

carbonman wrote:

-SWS wrote:Given our "vast crowd"...

Does this also encompass the "unruly mob", or

......are we on our own?

No, that's an extreeeemely important part of our "motley flavor".... perhaps even the key ingredient around here!

Julie wrote:The only thing that worries me here is that Dr. Park seems to be cropping up more and more on the forum in one way or another and I would hate to see people beginning to assume that, while he may be very knowledgable, he is some kind of guru, and ignore or reject much of what else is out there in OSA research land. The science is too new to be coming to final conclusions yet and I think we should just keep that in mind.

Julie, I went to Dr. Park last week as a 2nd opinion for my deviated septum and inflamed turbinates. He has great enthusisam for the field of OSA. He means well, although perhaps he may be somewhat over-advertised on the web. He does put the current CPAP machines in perspective, by mentioning that I most likely have UARS events (breathing stopping less than 10 seconds), and as of now, most machines do not measure these events. I had an appointment with him and he spent about 45 minutes with me in discussion. He is all for patients being actively involved in their therapy, and encourages it.