Orthopedic Mattresses & Box Springs Our Orthopedic mattresses and box springs offer superior comfort, support and durability. There are seven models available, ranging from the firmest tight top to the thickest and softest pillow top.Each Orthopedic mattress features our best offset innerspring system, which is made exclusively for The Original Mattress Factory. Our Orthopedic mattresses also have a two-sided design, stitched cotton padding and handles for ease of turning. Our top of the line Orthopedic box springs feature four-fold torsion modules with additional wire, an additional wood slat and offer superior support and shock absorption. 10 ½” - 16” (Tolerance of ± ½”) The Orthopedic models use a selection of the following materials depending on your comfort choice: "Orthopedic" Innerspring: OMF Exclusive 12 ¾ Gauge Knotted Offset Coil with 6 Turns and a 6 Gauge Border Rod Polyurethane Foam Mattress Topper Convoluted Polyurethane Foam Mattress Topper
Supersoft Polyurethane Foam Mattress Topper Synthetic Fiber or Premium Fiber Pad Stitched or Quilted Cotton Batting FR Innerliner or FR Fiber Quilted Panel Featuring a Premium Damask Fabric Cover Handles ~ designed not to pull out when turning your mattress Amish Built Wood Frames ~ featuring 1 x 4 side slats and 1 x 3 cross slats Blended Cotton Felt Insulator Pad Skid Resistant Fabric Cover Patented 4-Fold Torsion Grid Modules ~ provide extra shock absorption and durability Special Sinuous Wire Springs ~ provide added corner strength Hand-Tailored Box Spring Cover Standard box springs are approximately 8" high. Low profile box springs, which are approximately 5" high, are available upon request. * Note: Set price includes mattress and box spring. We will sell mattresses and box springs separately, but please note that they are designed to work together. If you do not purchase a matching set, you may shorten the life and/or alter the comfort of your new mattress.
There’s nothing worse than waking up stiff and sore after a poor night’s sleep. That’s why we supply the finest orthopaedic and semi-orthopaedic mattresses. Specially designed using 21st century technology, with the needs of the human body and comfort in mind, orthopaedic options are perfect for those who need a mattress option that complements their sleeping style. The best orthopadeic mattresses for bad backs At Happy Beds, our range includes orthopaedic and semi-orthopaedic mattresses that are hand stitched and use only natural fillings, and we stock many of the best varieties, including Ortho and Signature. Browse through our collection today and find an orthopaedic mattress to beat your back pain. 1 - 10 of 60 products... Ortho Royale Spring Orthopaedic Mattress Super Ortho Spring Reflex Foam Orthopaedic Firm Mattress Supreme Ortho Spring Reflex Foam Orthopaedic Extra Firm Mattress Gold Tufted Orthopaedic Spring Mattress Majestic 1000 Pocket Sprung Orthopaedic Mattress
Signature Platinum 2000 Pocket Sprung Orthopaedic Natural Fillings Mattress Tennyson 4000 Twin Pocket Sprung Air Flow Orthopaedic Natural Fillings Mattress Pocket Flexi 1000 Individual Sprung Reflex Foam Orthopaedic Mattress Ambassador 3000 Pocket Sprung Orthopaedic Natural Fillings Mattress Clifton Royale 1000 Pocket Sprung Orthopaedic Mattress Our Orthopedic models are available in the following comfort choices. They are listed in order from firmest to softest. 10 ½" - 16" (Tolerance ± ½") Mattress & Box Spring Mattress Thickness – 11” (Tolerance ± ½”) Mattress Thickness – 10 ½” (Tolerance ± ½”) Mattress Thickness – 12 ½” (Tolerance ± ½”) Mattress Thickness – 14 ½” (Tolerance ± ½”) ORTHOPEDIC PREMIER SUPER PILLOW TOP Mattress Thickness – 15” (Tolerance ± ½”) Mattress Thickness – 16” (Tolerance ± ½”) * Note: Set price includes mattress and box spring. Odd, really - I'm in a shop called Dreams, yet I'm having what can only be described as a nightmare.
I'm trying to buy a new bed. So far, I've lain down on half a dozen and have already forgotten whether I preferred the Silentnight Harmony, the Dunlopillo Dickens, or the Hypnos Beethoven. Which is bad news, really, since there are at least another 50 to go and already my back is starting to play up. Bed behaviour: Brits get only 6.6hours of sleep per night, rather than the recommended eight Yes, like 49 per cent of people in this country, I get some form of lower lumbar aggravation at least once a year and, like 99.9 per cent of people, I don't have a clue what bed would suit me best. Nor do I know how to find out. Amazing, given that we spend one-third of our lives asleep. Or not asleep, in my case. Recently, I've noticed my joints echoing the creaking sounds the bed makes each time I turn over. Plus more of my dreams seem to feature me clinging on to the edge of a cliff, upon which I wake up and find I'm trying to stop myself falling into the mattress valley that has opened up between me and my wife.
According to the Sleep Council - the promotional wing of the National Bed Federation - we Brits get only 6.6hours of sleep per night, rather than the recommended eight. Dr Chris Idzikowski, of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, says that if we all treated ourselves to a new bed, we would get an extra 42 minutes' shut-eye per night. Not surprisingly, the bed industry is big on the benefits of swapping your old mattress for a new, preferably more expensive one. The Furniture Industry Research Association claims a bed can lose 70 per cent of its strength over a ten-year period, while the Sleep Council warns that, like a marriage, a bed will start deteriorating after seven years. As a result, practically every mattress on the market tries to talk us into bed with quasi-medical promises. Beds are given names like Ortho and Posturepedic, while the hardest mattresses are all classified as 'orthopaedic'. Much is made in the marketing blurb about the scientific research that has gone into the making of the mattresses.
Tempur use an absorbent foam developed by Nasa scientists in order to minimise G-forces on astronauts during take-off. Not everyone, however, is convinced. 'I have often wondered what the word orthopaedic means in the context of buying a bed,' says Steve Krikler, a senior consultant orthopaedic surgeon based in Coventry. 'Most of the terminology is impressive-sounding jargon to persuade you to part with your hardearned cash, without any real evidence. A bad mattress can exacerbate back pain, but can it actually give you a bad back? I'm not sure there's any scientific evidence to back that up.' What gives you a bad back is not lying in bed - it's sudden twisting and lifting. 'It is a bit crazy', agrees the woman from the BackCare helpline. 'There used to be a school of thought that if you had a bad back, you needed a hard bed. The fact is, it depends on a person's weight, height and age.' And what kind do I need? She can't tell me. 'We only offer a listening ear,' she replies, 'not medical advice.'
surprising, as there doesn't seem to be a doctor in the world who is qualified in the field of optimum sleep angles or the best bed for your Just as no one had heard of an IT consultant 30 years ago, so the post of clinical snoozician or horizontalist has yet to be invented. There has been some medical examination of the bed-makers'In a study in the journal Spine, back-pain patients were asked to compare comfort levels of a hard mattress, a body-conforming foam mattress and a waterbed.'The waterbed and foam mattress did influence back symptoms, function and sleep more positively, as opposed to the hardBut the differences were small,' said the researchers. Which isn't much for the average mattress-purchaser to go on. It seems the closest you can get to expert advice is a Sleep Council leaflet, entitled The Bed Buyers' Guide, which tries to de-mystify the inner workings of a mattress. It explains the different type of spring configurations.
are open springs, arranged in rows and connected by a thick, spiral Then there are pocket springs, housed in individual fabric pockets, allowing them to work independently of each other. when you turn over, the spring-ripple effect stays on your side and doesn't spread to your partner. And that's not all. There are different types of foam mattress: latex (which springs back when you get up) and visco-elastic, or 'memory foam', which doesn't, but leaves an imprint of your body. But you have to be careful, warns BackCare, not to get stuck in your own moulded hollow. 'Lying in one position can create stiffness. A mattress should be supportive enough to take the weight of your body without sagging, but firm enough for you to turn with ease.' Bed Buyers' Guide has a picture of the perfect back shape when you're lying on your side. Think of the spine as a mouth and it should be neither tight-lipped, nor bendy and smiley, but more of a gentle, faraway grin.
Too rigid a back will mean your body isn't relaxed. Too slouchy and you'll be sleeping with a bent spine. The trouble is, when you're lying on a bed in a retail outlet, you can't see the shape of your back. And you don't half feel a fool asking the sales assistant: 'Is my spine smiley or sad?' The solution is to go bed-buying with someone else, preferably the person you're going to be sharing it with. Yet, instead of settling for a one-mattress-fits-both scenario, couples can have a his-and-hers arrangement, whereby you opt for two different-strength single mattresses that fit inside a zip-up double overblanket. More fool me, then, for coming to the bed shop on my own. It's just that I can't shake off memories of the time my wife and I went to John Lewis and lay there, while other shoppers stood at the foot of our bed, like they were visiting the tomb of a medieval king and queen. It seems few of us feel relaxed lying down in a department store. Jessica Alexander of the Sleep Council says: 'Eighty per cent of people spend less than two minutes trying the bed in which they're going to spend 3,000 hours every year.
'We recommend you spend at least ten minutes, ideally 30. If you're embarrassed, listen to music with your eyes closed. Some couples even wear their pyjamas!' Instead, I ask the sales assistant if it's all right to take my shoes off, and try the mattresses at my own pace and in my own trousers. Even so, with 50-plus beds to get through, I put in barely a minute on each. Afterwards, I write down words such as 'squidgy' and discover that mattress 'ratings' (one for rock-hard, five for wobbly) are unreliable. Similarly, the number of springs in the mattress doesn't seem to have a huge bearing on how comfortable it is by any stretch of the imagination. The other thing I discover is that if my chosen mattress and I don't get on, a quickie divorce can be arranged. 'If you've got a bad back, it's worth finding a retailer who will take a mattress back,' says Jessica. After two-and-a-half hours of being supine, I have narrowed the choice down to four mattresses, costing between £399 and £919 (the most expensive is £2,899).