Back Pain Mattress Recommendations

Learn the different types of mattresses that are best for either acute, short-term pain, or chronic, long-term pain. Explore why different types of mattresses can comfort back pain sufferers, and help you get to sleep. Learn how to reduce the changes in your spine (due to gravity) while you sleep.

Instructions

• 1

  Change the way you sleep first, by ensuring that you are not lying on your stomach with your head propped up on a pillow. Instead, lie on your side. When you need to get up, bend your knees, and get up in a sitting position alongside the bed. Push yourself up with your hands and legs, not your back.

• 2

  Choose a mattress that best comforts your back, if your back pains continue after adjusting your sleeping position. Keep in mind that it may take up to a week before you fully adjust to your new mattress.

• 3

  Sleep on a mattress with medium firmness for starters. Men tend to sleep better on a softer mattress. Somewhere in between firm and soft may reduce your back pains.

• 4

  Ensure that your mattress is designed to support all around the edges of the mattress, and that pressure is spread out evenly through the mattress.

• 5

  Test the mattress for at least six months, and ensure that your mattress store gives you a money-back guarantee.