The Secret to Your Best SleepHint: Neck Position

Sleeping on Your Back can Prevent
 Neck and Back Pain

A recent CNN article entitled “what is the healthiest sleeping position” highlights the best position for sleeping- and not just for comfort. The best position for sleeping is on ones back. It prevents neck pain, and lower back pain. By sleeping in the right position, you can align the C-curve in your cervical spine properly. Having a proper neck pillow can make a big difference. The Arc4life cervical traction neck pillow has a neck roll on one side. The other side with a “V” provides gentle neck traction as one lays on his or her back. This contoured neck pillow can provide tremendous relief for someone with degeneration in the neck spine, arthritis, a disc herniation or symptoms such as numbness and tingling in the hands or the arms.

Sleeping on one’s back can also prevent lower back pain because you can place a positioning wedge under the knees. This simple placement of a positioning roll (composed of fiber or foam) can give relief of lower back pain, sciatica and other lower back conditions. This position of sleeping on the back can take time to get used to but in the long run, it is beneficial for many reasons.

Believe it or not there are other benefits of sleeping on one’s back. It can help to reduce acid reflux. Elevation of the head is important because your stomach will be below the esophagus. So acid or food doesn’t come back up.

Finally, it reduces the wrinkles on your face. Who knew that sleeping on your back, can help with your looks too !! With nothing pushing up against your face- you wont’ wake up with wrinkles and can prevent them in the long run as well.

Source: What is the healthiest sleeping position?, CNN.com

Additional Reading Resources:

• Understanding the arc4life cervical traction neck pillow: Frequently asked questions
• How to Choose the Right Neck Pillow For Your Needs
• Sleep to Wake up Beautiful each Morning: Beauty Sleep- Is it all that its Cracked up to be?
• I am a Side Sleeper? Which Pillow should I buy
• Understanding Your Posture
  
  
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Kink in the Neck?...

Kink in the neck, stiff neck, crick in the neck, neck strain, whatever you want to call it...We are refering to the same type of thing. It most often comes about sleeping in an awkward position.

You know, sometimes those nights where yu are snuggled up to your husband or wife and although nice and warm etc., sometimes it's not the best neck position. Or that day when you are just beat, and you conk out in a funny neck position. Or that night where you zonk out on the couch without very good neck support. The list goes on.

Thank goodness for the traction pillow because it can not only help relieve a kinked neck but give you support and keep your head in a good position, preventing future neck kinks.



Additional Reading Resources

• I think I Strained my Neck !
  
• The Hidden Cause of the Morning Stiff neck
  
• Help me choose the Right Neck Pillow
  
• Treatment of A Stiff Neck Naturally without Pain Medication
  
• The Neck Pain Relief Kit
  

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