SD Laboratories

Emerging research establishes a strong link between sleep quality, sleeper body support and chronic pain.
Unhealthy sleep quality makes the brain more sensitive to pain. And conversely, poor body support, discomfort and pain can lead to poorer quality sleep.
The consideration of sleep in chronic pain patients nevertheless remains an under-considered aspect of clinical care.
SD Laboratories is a joint venture between a professor of neurosurgery, sleep physicians, other doctors, a team of physiotherapists and the aerospace engineers who co-founded Sleeping Duck.
The aim of SD Labs is to empower physiotherapists to adopt a holistic model of care that includes the consideration of sleep health improvement into their regular assessment of patients with chronic back or other pain.
This model involves the provision of training on being able to actively triage sleep health concerns, as well as the provision of support for patient referrals via a sleep physician lead ‘Sleep Optimise’ clinic.
The model also provides clinics with the training and equipment needed to fit patients and prescribe them on a novel bed system that allows for precision, video guided body positioning for optimal ‘stress free’ body recovery positioning.
Prescribed beds are delivered to patients on a risk free ‘pain reduction trial’.
SD Laboratories also works on models of care that consider sleep health in the optimisation of recovery and performance.
SD Laboratories currently seeks physiotherapy clinic partners who wish to consider adopting their model of care in the clinic.