According to a study conducted by Harvard University, lack of quality sleep sometimes results in serious health problems, including high blood pressure and a weakened immune system. For this reason, many beds and mattresses on the market promise to make it easier to get a good night's sleep. Sleep number beds are among the available products. These beds adjust based on user settings until they reach the desired comfort level. Before purchasing this type of bed, it helps to understand exactly how these beds work. Understanding the design is the key to understanding how a sleep number bed works. A sleep number bed is a mattress designed with two crucial components: an inflatable air mattress and a memory foam top. Air mattresses have existed for many years and are a modern staple of camping trips. Anyone who has used an air mattress knows that a fully inflated mattress is quite firm and solid for sleeping. If the air mattress does not inflate fully, it provides a much softer and yielding surface.
This is the basic principle behind a sleep number bed. Unlike a camping air mattress, a sleep number bed uses an adjustable air pump. If the user wishes to have a firmer bed, the pump fills the mattress with more air until it reaches the specified setting. If the user desires a softer bed, the pump removes air from the mattress. Memory foam is a remarkable product first developed by NASA. Memory foam works by responding to heat by changing density. As warmer objects, such as sleeping bodies, touch the foam, the foam becomes softer at the warmest points. When memory foam becomes part of a mattress, it responds to body temperature by conforming to body shape. The primary benefit of sleeping on memory foam is that it distributes weight evenly. When no one is on the foam, it returns to its original shape. When multiple sleepers use a single sleep number bed, each sleeper has his or her own control device. Each person can adjust the firmness on one side of the bed to accommodate preferred specifications.
This is possible because each side of the bed contains its own air mattress with foam borders between each of the air mattresses. Anyone who sleeps in the middle of the bed only receives support from foam, and not from an air mattress. More expensive sleep number beds add a third component to the standard design. Along with the air mattress and the memory foam layer, an additional pillow top layer, often filled with down, rests on top. The purpose of this layer is to provide additional softness. Although this does not diminish the nature of the sleep number bed, it is often harder for those who enjoy firmer mattresses to feel the air mattresses beneath them. Several manufacturers exist for sleep number beds, and the sleep numbers may not always correspond to each other. In other words, what may be an ideal sleep number or firmness for one person on one mattress is not always the same ideal sleep number on a different mattress. Fortunately, a common method exists for determining the ideal sleep number on all types of sleep number beds.
Lay in preferred sleep position Adjust the mattress from firmest setting to softest setting Adjust the mattress up from the softest setting until the neck, shoulders, hips, and back feel entirely supported Sleep on the setting for at least 3 nights before adjusting as needed It often takes several days of quality rest to feel the benefits of better sleep. If the sleep number bed does not provide satisfying sleep at any setting, other underlying issues like allergies or breathing problems are often the problem. All components of a sleep number system, including the mattress, box spring, and bed frame, are available for purchase on eBay. To find a sleep number bed, simply use the search bar found on every eBay page. As an example, a search for "sleep number queen" narrows the list of possible results to only include queen size mattresses, or you can choose generic search terms to widen the range of possibilities. It is always possible to modify or amend any search term for an easier search.
Sleep number beds offer the ability to adjust the firmness of the beds so users are able to achieve maximum body support and comfort. The goal is to make it possible for sleepers, especially couples, to find a way to sleep better and enjoy less pain and better health as a result. Whether or not it is possible to achieve this goal with a mattress depends on the sleepers and their individual sleep problems, but sleep number beds definitely solve the problem for many people.One of the frequent questions that the intelliBED staff in our sleep wellness centers is asked would have to be; how does an intelliBED compare to a Sleep Number mattresses, and is the Sleep Number mattress a true sleep wellness mattress? First of all Sleep Number or Select Comfort represents a type of mattress companies that have taken the innerspring out of the mattress and replaced it with an air chamber. The idea incorrect thinking behind this is that the problems with mattresses is that the inner springs are not good.
At intelliBED we know that the inner spring supports the lower back and hips from sinking into the mattress messing up your bodies alignment. The problem is the air chamber can’t push back on your back to provide the amount of support needed like an inner spring mattress can do. When using a mattress with an air chamber the heaviest part of your body, your hip will sink into the mattress because the air can’t push back for the needed support. What you need in a sleep wellness mattress, is something that will apply pressure or push on your hips to keep them from sagging into the mattress. Sleep Number mattresses rely on air to support your body and foam to comfort your body while you sleep. IntelliBED mattresses rely on the tempered steal support inter spring and intelliGEL that gives you comfort and support. Sleep number is good however intelliBED is better because it provides better back support, and because intelliBED doesn’t rely on foam for comfort.