Santiago Garfias, neurosurgeon practicing at several private clinics in the Balearic Islands, deepens into the relationship between sleep quality, pain and neurological recovery, positioning NESA technology as a key tool in this approach.
He explains with scientific rigor why sleep is decisive in neurology: lack of rest reduces the pain perception threshold, facilitates the development of epilepsy and alters cerebral metabolism. REM sleep, in particular, is essential to eliminate residues generated by neuronal activity, and its absence can favor long-term neurodegenerative disorders.
In his practice he uses NESA mainly with patients with lumbar and radicular pain due to degenerative disc pathology, especially in those who do not want or cannot have surgery. The results are double: pain improvement and, indirectly, improvement in sleep quality by reducing nighttime awakenings due to pain.
He defends that all centers that treat anxiety, stress or pain should incorporate a sleep study and treatment unit, and that sleep should be routinely evaluated from primary care. His future goal is to develop comprehensive protocols that combine pain control and sleep improvement for pathologies such as fibromyalgia and chronic anxiety.
