If you live in New Zealand and find yourself suffering from a snoring condition, then you may wonder what could possibly be done about it. Some people think of snoring as a minor annoyance; one that keeps them awake and serves as the ‘butt of jokes’ around the house. But snoring is not a joke it can be a pretty serious sleeping disorder, one that can undermine your health and your partners wellness causing a number of health and relationship issues.
Snoring affects your health and as such, any claims to effectiveness needed to be validated by authentic, credible sleep research, and early on Patney committed to having their Sleep Positioner independently verified. Once they arrived at a product design that they believed was extremely effective, it underwent an independent validation study by the WellSleep Centre – Otago University.
This study, by Senior Lecturer, Dr Angela Campbell, Department of Medicine and Manager WellSleep, assessed the effectiveness of Patney in reducing snoring in a population of snorers and/or mild obstructive sleep apnoea subjects. The subjects were male and female, aged between 42-61 and covered a cross-section of ethnicities and body compositions. The results were extremely encouraging. The study found that the Patney improved sleep quality, that partners reported less restlessness, less snoring and improved sleep. 89% of people who completed the study reported a reduction in their partner’s snoring.
The way it works is that the Patney Sleep Positioner encourages the head and upper chest into the correct position to maintain an open airway and good sleep posture as shown in the diagrams. The shoulder pad elevates the upper chest and shoulders to align and maintain the airway.
Your personalised Patney is designed to fit your size and weight, providing a comfortable solution, and each Patney is customised to support your height and weight, contouring to your body to ensuring comfort throughout the night. The Patney is specially designed to keep your head, neck and shoulders in alignment and prevent your head from dropping, thereby supporting an open airway, and for more information on anti-snore pillows and snoring devices NZ please go to www.patney.com .
