If you are unsure as to which bed you should choose, follow these four simple steps: 1. Try to be as relaxed when you try a potential bed as you are when you go to bed at home. Remove any thick outdoor clothing so that you feel as close to the comfort of home as possible. 2. Try all of the various levels of firmness and be thorough. 3. If you have the slightest doubt, try yet again. 4. If you are still unsure, choose the slightly firmer bed. Once you have chosen the best mattress for you and your partner and the bed arrives at home, it will take a while to adjust to the new feel and support. Make sure you read the Respa care instructions included, as this will ensure optimal performance for a longer period of time. Feeling cosy in bed is a natural thing but certain mattress materials can lead to heat building up during sleep, which will eventually cause you to wake up. Memory foam has been very popular, but its heat retention properties can cause overheating and difficulty remaining asleep throughout the night.
Additionally, memory foam is not a great choice for someone with back issues as it can soften over time and will also ‘creep’, resulting in sleeping out of alignment as you sink down deeper over the course of the night. High quality polyurethane foam (HR polyfoam) and Latex are now known to be better choices. Latex has similar pressure relieving qualities to memory foam and will last much longer, not changing in softness or support with variations in temperature. A cool, fresh sleeping environment is essential for deep, undisturbed sleep. Look out for our beds with Adaptive technology in the mattress covers. Adaptive reacts to evaporate any moisture or humidity in your mattress, keeping you cool comfortable and dry. If you’re often disturbed by your partner moving around during the night, it could be due to the springs of your mattress. Look out for the Respa beds that feature RespaForm pocket springs and multi spring layers like in the Pocket, Diamond, RepsaGel and Serenity Collections.
Do not bend or fold your new mattress, even for temporary storage. It will permanently damage the spring unit and invalidate your warranty. Let the mattress breathe. Like a new car, a new bed may initially have a ‘new’ smell about it. All new mattresses should be aired for several hours to ensure that any new upholstery or synthetic odours are given the opportunity to fully dissipate. Body shaped impressions are normal in your mattress. Impressions of up to 25-30mm indicate that the comfort levels in your mattress are conforming to your body’s individual contours. These will be minimised with regular turning. Turn your mattress regularly, unless you have purchased a non-turn mattress. It is important that you turn your mattress from end to end and side to side every week for the first few months to ensure the fillings are evenly worn. Your body will take a while to adjust to sleeping on a new surface, so don’t worry if your new bed doesn’t immediately meet your expectations.
Give it time, it could take a few weeks. Chances are they are not as similar as they seem. They might both claim to be of the same construction, but further investigation will probably reveal different material qualities, densities and amounts. If you want to shop comparatively you will need quite a lot of detail to make sure you are comparing like with like. For a long time, it was believed that a hard bed was good for a bad back. Nowadays it is accepted that this is not necessarily the case, and a hard bed could in fact cause more damage. A supportive and comfortable mattress is the best option – regardless of construction. References to beds being orthopaedic, or similar medical terms, do not ensure that the bed has been professionally assessed or recommended. Rather, it is a term used by manufacturers to refer to extra firm models in their range. Prices of beds range from under €100 to several thousand Euros. As a general rule, you get what you pay for. Assuming a life span of 7 years, every €100 you spend on a new bed represents an investment of just 2.7 Cents per night .
A bargain bed is not a bargain if you don’t sleep well. With a larger bed you are less likely to disturb your partner. You should be able to lie side by side, with your arms behind your head and your elbows out, without touching. Your bed should also be 4-6 inches (10-15cm) longer than the tallest partner.Your Mattress and Your Back In your first few decades, you may be blissfully unaware of the amazing architecture of your back. You can lift, walk, dance or sleep without thinking much about that stack of disks and the extraordinary tube of nerves, your spinal cord. Your muscles may mutter now and then when you overdo it, but all in all, your back just quietly does its job. Until it starts to shout. Most people who have back pain first experience it between ages 30 and 40. Back pain is the most common type (27%) of pain, according to a recent National Institute of Health Statistics survey. And 20% of American adults (42 million) report that pain or discomfort disrupts their sleep a few nights a week or more.
If your back pain is keeping you from deep, restorative sleep, you’re not one in a million, unfortunately--you’re one of millions. Your Mattress Makes a Difference A mattress that’s too hard, too soft, or made with cheap materials will keep you restless or awake, at a minimum. At a maximum, a pooped-out or poorly designed mattress will give you a brand new kind of pain. Even if you went to sleep pain free, a sag, gully, lump or uncomfortable surface will work on your muscles and nerves during the night…and you wake up with gnawing back pain. Normally, morning “mattress back” is a result of muscle spasm. When muscles lock down, that’s your body’s instinctive way of “splinting” an irritated nerve. It can hurt like all heck, but will normally ease once you’re in motion during the day. If the problem isn’t muscle related, but nerve pain—the type that results from a disk problem or old injury, for example—the wrong mattress surface doesn’t cause mere ache, it causes agony.
When a disk or other structure is impinging on a nerve, it’s important that your spine be stable during the night. Otherwise, your vertebral disks can shift further out of position, and those nerves will let you know. If your mattress doesn’t support your body evenly or adequately, very strong pain is possible. Another kind of back pain associated with the wrong mattress is soreness from pressure points. Without the right depth and type of cushioning in a mattress surface, tiny veins called capillaries will collapse. This causes soreness when blood rushes to try to restore circulation to the area. If you’re a back sleeper, your tailbone is the most common area for pressure-related back pain. That’s because there’s not much fat “padding” over this bony prominence to protect it. Can a New Mattress Help?A new mattress isn’t magic, but it can sure feel that way. Many types of back pain are directly relieved by sleeping on an intelligently designed mattress that takes into account your shape, weight, height, and sleeping position preferences, along with the particular kind of back pain that plagues you.
The Savvy Rest mattress design has brought back pain relief to more customers than we can count. Because it’s built in layers, allowing personalized combinations of cushioning and support, we can customize the mattress with your bad back in mind. The trick is to achieve the right balance between surface cushioning, or pressure relief, and spinal support. You’ll find when you call Savvy Rest that we have some “nosy questions” – about your height, your weight, and whether you most often sleep on your back or your side. (If you say “my stomach” we may ask whether you have tried another position, as stomach sleeping can put additional strain on the back). And if you have back pain, we’d like to know if it’s just in the mornings, most of the time, and whether it’s related to a disk problem, simple over-exertion, or another cause, such as arthritis or fibromyalgia. For back pain sufferers, a good night’s sleep is an important part of your effort to find relief.