Fifty percent of adults in the UK currently suffer from back pain and it is estimated that 80% are likely to have back problems during their lives.. What most people don’t seem to understand is that having a good quality mattress can help to alleviate and even prevent back pain.
Sleeping on a good quality mattress with the right level of support in the correct places can protect the muscles and give the right amount of support where it’s needed most to reduce stress placed on them.
People who have back problems may already understand how important it is to find the right level of support and comfort in a mattress. Having a good quality mattress with optimum comfort and support can help to not only relieve the symptoms of lower back pain, but can also prevent back pain in the future. Sleeping on a high quality supportive mattress can help to improve back health in the future.
One of the most common causes of lower back pain is from sleeping in an poor position from low mattress support or sleeping on a poor quality mattress. This creates stress on the back muscles placing them under strain, which then create pains in the back muscles.
Not only does a poor quality mattress cause this stress by putting the spine in the wrong alignment, but it can also affect sleep patterns giving a poor and uncomfortable sleep, which results in people not sleeping long enough and being disturbed during the night.
If you have had lower back pain, you will realise how it can affect your life, not just disrupting your sleep but also making daily tasks difficult. Gardening, decorating and housework can become an irritant to back pain sufferers, and back pain also costs the economy £5bn a year in sick days, with 300,000 people claiming capacity benefits for back problems and 1.1m are disabled because of the problem.
Many people keep their mattresses for far too long, to the extent to which they begin to show signs of wear and tear on the outside, not just the inside of the mattress. When a mattress is getting too old, it will no longer provide the right level of support and protection for the back muscles.
Memory foam mattresses and latex foam mattresses are supportive and effective mattresses that contour to your body, which means that your back muscles are protected in the correct places and will prevent stress on your joints. At Click 4 Beds, we stock memory foam mattresses and latex foam mattresses available from Breasley, Nestledown, Sleepeeze and Airsprung.
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