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Health and Fitness with Proper Sleep Mattress

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December 1, 2008

Do you ever spare a minute to think about how you sleep and how your sleep posture affects your whole bodily fitness? Huh! How is my sleep going to affect my fitness? this is one common answer that most of us would churn out in our mind.

Well! as a matter of fact a lot of sleep research scientists working on sleep and its relation with health and fitness have confirmed that the better we sleep the better we are physically as well as mentally. In this context, we would first attempt to have a look at the mattress choice and how it may affect our sleep posture as well as total spine fitness.

Sleep mattress and spine fitness

The first and foremost important point in a proper sleep is spine alignment. In general, your spine must be in proper alignment while you are lying down, whether for a rest, nap or good night’s sleep. Sleeping on the wrong kind of mattress can throw your spine out of alignment.

While a soft, sagging mattress fails to give proper support to the heaviest part of the body, the pelvic region and thus causes the spine to curve toward the side on which the person is sleeping. In contrast, a hard mattress causes curvature in the opposite direction because it does not provide the sufficient compression to accommodate the wider hip and shoulder areas. This kind of mattress neither gives the back or spine the proper kind of support when lying on the back or stomach.

The right choice of mattress

The best option would be to look for a semi-rigid mattress, firm and flat this should be the one with sufficient resilience to allow shoulder and pelvic bones to form their own natural hollows. This kind of mattress would certainly ensure proper spine alignment and health.

It is very important to make a proper choice of mattress before you finally make a decision, firstly because of the comfort aspect and secondly because we eventually spend nearly one third of our life sleeping. Therefore ensuring a better mattress quality for the 33% of our life makes sure the rest 67% is live and full of energy i.e. without aching backs and back pains.

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