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Elisabeth Bergmann was unable to walk properly for years. She came to Unna without hope and experienced a small miracle with Dr Berndsen.

If you tell Jonas that he will probably be able to eat on his own in just under a month, he certainly won't even be able to understand it. After all, the eight-year-old is not even able to move his hand to his plate, his arm to his head and his spoon to his mouth.

Dr Klaus and Sabine Berndsen are travelling to Alexandria next week to support doctors in a hospital. When the post arrived at the practice shortly before Christmas, Dr Klaus Berndsen was amazed: the Egyptian Ministry of Defence was requesting his services.

Six months of treatment. That's the time you need to wait before filing for divorce - if you plan to - because you can no longer tolerate your spouse's snoring and insomnia is dominating your nights, affecting your daytime performance and other aspects of your daily life, and in some cases even leading to depression and anxiety.

As if it were a miracle. But it is craft and treatment. Nevertheless, it is wonderful for everyone involved, especially for Jonas, who was able to eat a piece of apple and drink a sip of tea for the first time at the age of eight.

Jonas is already eight years old, but the disabled boy can only eat and drink with help from others. Therapists are now trying to release a blockage in his brain.

Snoring is not unhealthy - except for your relationship with your partner. ‘It's mainly the partner who suffers,’ says Dr Klaus-Jürgen Berndsen. At some point, she will say: ‘Do something!’. The good news is that you can actually do something about snoring.

Anyone who snores regularly and even stops breathing is at risk of serious damage to their health. In addition to a visit to the sleep laboratory, an endoscopic examination by an ENT specialist is advisable. Good treatment options can then be developed.

Promotion and research - Dr Klaus-Jürgen Berndsen is committed to these two challenges. Together with his wife Sabine, the doctor runs the Institute for Speech and Voice Therapy (ISST) in Unna. One of the main focuses of their speech therapy practice is the treatment of people with severe and profound disabilities.

‘A snorer in the audience is priceless, because he prevents the other theatre-goers from falling asleep.’ Martina Nicolai and Wilfried Kümper can't laugh at all at this theatre wisdom. Snoring is torture for them. From now on, they will train together for a silent night.

Spouses who have been deprived of sleep have had to wait a long time for these extra lessons. Unna's sleep and, above all, snoring researcher Dr Klaus Jürgen Berndsen is opening his anti-snoring school on Wasserstrasse on 20 October. The phrase ‘Good night then’ finally has a positive ring to it.

Relaxation of muscles and tissue in the mouth and throat is generally recognised as the main cause of snoring and nocturnal breathing interruptions. However, there is no differentiated information on the causes of this in the relevant specialist literature.