Body pain can develop due to poor sleep
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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At the University of Kiel, a group of researchers found that a bad dream, which is accompanied by frequent nightly awakenings, problems with falling asleep, etc. Can lead to the appearance in the whole body of pain and aches, especially this applies to the elderly.
Experts believe that at the age of more than fifty years, 15% of women and 10% of men experience pain in the body every day, 80% of people face such a problem after having crossed the 65-year mark. The research team analyzed more than four thousand people over the age of fifty who did not suffer from any pain. Three years later, about three thousand people began to experience unpleasant sensations, a little more than a half thousand did not observe changes in their body, and about a thousand people already suffered from chronic pain, while 25% of this category of people had previously experienced other types of pain.
Researchers also took into account psychological factors, the physical condition, the level of education of volunteers.
A more detailed study led the experts to the conclusion that when there were permanent pains, there was a correlation with poor sleep quality, i.e. Those volunteers who took part in the studies that felt tired, broken after awakening, felt that they had not had enough sleep after an overnight rest, were more exposed to the risk of developing soreness throughout the body.
In addition to poor sleep, scientists noted among the risk factors increased anxiety, low social status.
When analyzing the brain activity of participants, scientists concluded that those who were prone to chronic pain had various sleep disorders. As experts have noted, if a person who is perfectly healthy will be awakened during a deep sleep, then all the developing symptoms will resemble those that arise from chronic pain.
Experts recommend to adjust their morning awakening to their own biorhythms (because each person they are individual). Scientists are sure that it's not a question of how much time a person sleeps, but in what phase of a dream the awakening has occurred.
Previously, scientists have already discovered the relationship between problems with sleep and the development of diseases. For example, a relationship was found in women who had problems with falling asleep and developing fibromyalgia (a disease characterized by pain in the muscles, tendons and ligaments). Such pains are very similar to those that arise with arthritis, but with one difference: in fibromyalgia joints are not deformed and do not collapse. During the study, the researchers found a strong relationship between various sleep disorders and the development of fibromyalgia in adult women. Fibromyalgia is more likely to affect women, according to some sources, about 6% of the world's population is affected by the disease. Studies have shown that in general 3% of women are susceptible to this disease, but if a woman over 45 years old has problems with sleep, the risks of developing fibromyalgia increase many times.
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