I often have patients who complain of low back pain. Over 80% of the time, it is not due to some kind of recent trauma, like lifting something heavy or falling. If you have inexplicable back aches, it could be your mattress. Here's what you should do: Take the comforter and sheets off your mattress. View it from the side, at eye level. Do you see a depression in the center? If so, time to get a new mattress because it has lost some of its support. If you have a shallow pit in your mattress and sleep on your side, it bends your lumbar spine downwards. If you sleep on your stomach, it arches your back too much. If you sleep on your back, it curls your back too much. In all cases, its bad for your back.
The mattress I recommend to patients is TempurPedic. TempurPedics are made of viscoelastic material that adapts to variations in pressure and temperature. The "hot spots" or "pressure points" of the body are: the head, low back, and lower legs. On a TempurPedic, the mattress "pushes up" more on these pressure points, and less on the lighter pressure regions. This results in a sensation of floating on the mattress. As a result, circulation is less obstructed and you have a deeper, more restful sleep with less tossing and turning (which is what your brain tells your body to do when it senses obstructions in circulation).
We offer discount prices on TempurPedic mattresses at our clinic. Call us for more details.
Dan Perez, DC
500 Bollinger Canyon Way, Suite A-15
San Ramon, CA 94582
(925) 788-6253
Email: mailto:info@sf-chiro.com
2 comments:
I totally can relate to this: I used to sleep on a waterbed and after a while I noticed I had horrible lower back pain. I talked to my doctor and he recommended me to get a pillow from Ultimatebackstore.com with the Tempur material inside to help align my back. I did just that and now I sleep better and wake up feeling better. It's amazing what a world of different something like that makes.
Yes, waterbeds are not good for your back. Water cannot be compressed, so when you lie down on a waterbed the water shifts; whereas the viscoelastic tempurpedic material deforms along the curvatures of the body giving it ultimate support.
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