The positions you sleep in and what you are sleeping on can greatly affect your back conditions and back pain. If you have a great mattress, it can help you to have great sleeping posture and can ease back pain and help ease back condition symptoms. You can even adjust the way that you sleep for your back condition or particular ones such as osteoarthritis and degenerative disc disease.

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Pain is not something that anyone ever wants to experience. It can seriously put a damper on life and can make living more difficult and less enjoyable. Being in constant pain is frustrating. If you have back pain, even without any knowledge of where it is coming from, you should see your doctor. Another great thing to do is to check out new, comfortable mattresses that suit your needs. Even people who are super healthy get back pains from sleeping on old or bad mattresses!

Using a good mattress, like Tempurpedic or Serta, you can help to keep your spine aligned and create good sleeping posture habits. Using a pillow under your knees can reduce pressure on your lower spine, if you like to sleep on your back (sleeping on your back can force your spine to arch unnaturally). Sleeping on the stomach, however, is one of the worst if you have a healthy back because it also curves the spine unnaturally. A great way to stop sleeping on your stomach is to sew or perhaps tape a tennis ball to the front of your nightgown, which will prevent you from rolling over.

If you have a particular back disorder, you could be sleeping in a way that is aggravating the disorder even more. If you have osteoarthritis, sleeping on your side in the fetal position will open up the joints in the sides of the spine, and this can help to relieve pain.

Even though sleeping on the stomach is not good for those with healthy backs, sometimes it can be helpful, like it is for those with degenerative disc disease. However, they should place a flat pillow beneath their stomach and hips to reduce stress on the lower back and make it more comfortable for themselves!

Another condition is hip pain; though it is not a back condition, it can still make sleeping frustrating and difficult. If you have hip pain, placing a pillow beneath the legs and sleeping in the fetal position on your side can help to relieve pressure on the hips and make it easier to fall asleep.

Tempurpedic and Serta mattresses are just two great brands that can help you get a great night抯 sleep. Sleeping on an old or hard mattress can cause more back problems, back pain, and hip pain. Your back deserves a great mattress and you deserve a great sleep!