Sleepwell Magazine / May– June 2017

“If your bed is not right,
you may harm your
spine”
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One third of our lives are spent in sleep, thus choosing right
mattress becomes important for our spine health especially
in the long run. Wrong mattresses may cause belly and back
aches that may be worsened in time. Cagatay Ozturk, associate
professor in orthopedics and traumatology, advised people
to use orthopedic
mattresses if they
do not want to have
problems.
Ozturk says that a good mattress
is to be as hard as to prevent the
embedding of body in the mattress
and be as comfortable as to
keep the original form of their
bodies, because, extremely softer
or harder mattresses than normal
can force spine in long term. He
adds that the best mattress for the
health of spine is the one that has
a form that minimizes the pressure
on discs and spines. He said,
“We have to protect our spinal
bones both in sleep as well as we
protect them day time. If it is so
soft or hard it forces the normal
posture of the people and the form
of spine. Thus, we have to choose
the right mattress consciously. To
lay down on bad mattress may
cause aches in belly and spine in
the long run. Later on, this leads to
irreversible damages in the body.
For this reason, orthopedic mattresses
should be preferred.”
Ozturk has also said that, the
mattresses must be as large as
possible, because smaller mattresses
may lower the sleep quality.
The size of the mattress must be
20 cm longer than the height of
the people, and at least 95 cm
wide. It must keep the body right
and support every part of the body
in balance.