Tips for Choosing the Best Mattress if you have Chronic Back Pain
If your back hurts often, you need a really firm mattress to offer a lot of support, right? Well, not necessarily. The experts say that the best mattress for lower back pain is a personal choice of what feels most comfortable to each individual. The appropriate amount of firmness is a personal preference, just like the “correct” temperature to make a room comfortable.
It’s an important choice since most of us will spend the next several years on the mattress we order from the showroom. Considering how miserable the pain can be from nerve and muscular problems, degenerative disc disease, arthritis, sciatica, and other back pain, the mattress can either be a source of relief or one of the major things that can aggravate these conditions. A comfortable bed can work with pain medication and skilled medical oversight to lay the foundation for restful, restorative sleep. (more…)