Sleepwise Sleep Clinics and Therapy

Sleepwise provides professional sleep therapy services and advice, including clinics, one-to-one appointments, self-help products, CDs, articles and free products. Keywords: sleep clinic, sleep apnea, pure sleep, sleep experts, sleep depot, sit and sleep, sleep matters, sleep therapist, sleep management, sleep products, sleep help, sleep consultancy, sleep workshop, coaching, training, CPD.  

Sleep & Stress
Consultants
since
1999

Therapists

If you are professionally qualified and provide help to clients with sleep problems, we would like to invite you to join the Sleepwise Register.

Sleepwise Sleep Clinics and Therapy

Sleepwise provides professional sleep therapy services and advice, including clinics, one-to-one appointments, self-help products, CDs, articles and free products. Keywords: sleep clinic, sleep apnea, pure sleep, sleep experts, sleep depot, sit and sleep, sleep matters, sleep therapist, sleep management, sleep products, sleep help, sleep consultancy, sleep workshop, coaching, training, CPD.  

Ki Fit

NEW  SYNC SOFTWARE - Using the Ki Fit has got even easier with their new sync software, which enables you to upload your data even quicker. No more logging in. Just plug in and go!

Manage Your Health

Getting to know your body better will help you make powerful, positive changes in how you manage your health. Not only will this device enable you to monitor the efficiency and effectiveness your diet and exercise, you will also be able to monitor the quality and duration of your sleep.

In a recent British national sleep survey, 18% of people reported that their sleep was insufficient on the majority of nights, and nearly 60% of people reported insufficient sleep on one or more nights of the previous week. It is not just the amount of time in bed that’s important; difficulty getting off to sleep or disturbed, restless sleep can also create a significant sleep debt.

Through setting accurate sleep efficiency targets and monitoring these targets, it is possible to improve sleep. If sleep is improved this can be an important factor in correcting other areas that are both directly and indirectly associated with sleep.

The Ki Fit armband uses a number of different sensors to detect whether the user is lying down and awake, or lying down and asleep, including an accelerometer to detect movement, and sensors for skin temperature and galvanic skin response ('sweat' response).

As well as measuring movement and the orientation of the body, the other sensors like skin temperature, heat flux and galvanic skin response (sweat response) are important, as these also provide information relating to your sleep status. For example, the body releases hormones before you fall asleep which cause a drop in body temperature, and this is one of the things that can be used when determining sleep patterns.

Your sleep quality results for each night are shown in your Activity Manager as a bar.

You can see that the darker blue shows when you are asleep and the lighter blue when you are lying down but not asleep. The ratio of dark blue to light blue is given as a percentage which is your 'sleep efficiency' score. The Activity Manager stores this sleep data over weeks and months so you can look back at summaries of between 7 and 28 days and see how your sleep patterns are over this time.

Research carried out as part of the development of the original technology used in the Ki Armband showed good correlations between the different sleep phases and the armband results, so this supports the accuracy of the product. NB: sleep phases information was only available in the earlier development models.

In terms of analysing your sleep in detail, the armband will highlight the quality and duration of your sleep but will not identify any specific problem. The information provided can help people to assess whether changes they make to their diet, exercise routine, pre-bed routine etc are having a positive impact on their sleep. So this is monitoring information rather than diagnostic information, but this can be very valuable in itself.

Ki Performance are the company behind Ki Fit, and we can provide more in-depth support if required as part of one of our assessments, including referrals to sleep specialists if required.

If you wish to learn more about the Ki Fit arm band and how it could help you manage your sleep problems please visit the Ki Fit website by clicking on the logo below.

If you make a purchase be sure to enter the voucher code HEALTHYWISE to see what discounts might be available to you as a Sleepwise customer.