{"id":15560,"date":"2020-12-14T00:06:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T00:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=15560"},"modified":"2020-12-14T00:06:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T00:06:45","slug":"3-things-to-know-about-sleep-trackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/sleep\/3-things-to-know-about-sleep-trackers\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Things to Know About Sleep Trackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have trouble sleeping? Consider tracking your sleeping habits with a tracker. Here&#8217;s what you should know:<\/p>\n<h3>1. Trackers collect data and watch for patterns<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sleep trackers are available now in numerous electronics such as smartwatches, rings, headbands, wristbands, and armbands. They can even be found in your bed as an in-bed sensor. They are built to help improve your sleep behaviors. Several trackers can record data about your heart rate, respiration, oxygen levels, body positions, and leg movements and help determine if you have a sleep disorder or not. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure you choose a sleep tracker that will work for you and allow you access to comprehensive data. Do your research and check reviews.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>2. Prices Vary<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monitors that you put under your sheet or mattress can run from $75.00 to $230.00 for average prices. Smart finger rings you can wear at night start around $100.00 and can go as high as $170.00. Cheaper wrist monitors start at $23.00 and can run the gamut up to $399.00. Smart headbands do the trick at $49.95 and up. Smartwatches can cost up to $399.00. Remember if you buy a smartwatch you need to install apps for your sleep monitor. Apps can be as low as a one-time $2.99 charge but some have monthly fees, so read the fine print carefully.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>3. Trackers Don\u2019t Measure Actual Sleep<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhile sleep trackers can collect a lot of information about your slumber habits, there\u2019s one important thing they generally don\u2019t do, says <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/profiles\/results\/directory\/profile\/0000803\/alan-schwartz\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alan Schwartz, M.D.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, director of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/health\/wellness-and-prevention\/do-sleep-trackers-really-work\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sleep Disorder Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center: \u201cThey don\u2019t measure sleep directly,\u201d he says. \u201cMost sleep-tracking devices make some guesstimate as to how much you\u2019re actually sleeping.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still tossing, turning, and fatigued?\u00a0 Don\u2019t give up, try a tracker to locate patterns in your sleep, and make a plan to see your medical provider for a sleep study. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have trouble sleeping? Consider tracking your sleeping habits with a tracker. Here&#8217;s what you should know: 1. Trackers collect data and watch for patterns Sleep trackers are available now in numerous electronics such as smartwatches, rings, headbands, wristbands, and armbands. They can even be found in your bed as an in-bed sensor. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[693],"class_list":["post-15560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleep","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}