How to sleep on a pillow: useful tips

A person cannot do without sleep, during this period he gains strength, restoration processes in the body are turned on, and even healing from diseases occurs. From what position the sleeping person is in depends on whether his muscles relax, whether there will be a load on the spine. Therefore, it is worth considering the question: "how to sleep?"

There are many devices for sleeping, the most necessary of which is a pillow. All bedding is used to improve the quality of sleep, but it is not always! Why?

Why do I need a pillow

For the entire period of human existence, sleep occupied a significant period of his life. Over such a long period of time, a number of stereotypes have been established, many of them are true, but there are also erroneous ones. For example, how to sleep and whether a pillow is needed at all. Disputes on this issue are conducted by dentists, orthopedists, psychologists, and bedding manufacturers are not inferior to them. It is still impossible to evaluate the results of their disputes, but there are undeniable facts about how to sleep properly.

1. For the rest to be complete, the body must be in the correct position: the spine should not bend in any of the departments.
2. Vital arteries are located in the neck area, one of which is called the carotid. If it is pinched, there will be a violation of the blood supply to the brain. As a result, the brain will be deprived of oxygen and the transmission of nerve impulses will be disrupted.
3. The neck should be parallel to the mattress during the whole period of sleep, otherwise the spine will not be straight, which means that the intervertebral discs and openings between the joints will contract and stretch. This process requires energy and a person will not rest during the night. In addition, he can feel in the morning headache and heaviness in the cervical spine.

Compliance with these conditions is impossible without the use of a pillow. Many people have the opinion that eliminating the pillow, you can avoid the formation of wrinkles on the face, swelling and stress on the internal organs. All these facts are not proven and follow them astray. However, it is absolutely undeniable that using the right pillow ensures proper breathing and metabolism. And this is much more important than the above facts.

The experiment will help to make sure of this: night without a pillow. What feelings will be in the morning? Quite right, a good rest will not be felt.

Proper posture for sleeping

In order to avoid being overwhelmed in the morning, you should ensure the correct posture during sleep. First of all, it is necessary to ensure the correct position of the spine: without excesses. For this:

1. You should not sleep on your stomach: in this position, the neck necessarily arches unnaturally, and the spine suffers from tension. If a lover of sleep on his stomach puts a blanket or blanket twisted into a harness instead of a pillow under his head, he will significantly ease the tension in the spine and neck. The neck in this position will only be bent, but not raised.
2. For the correct posture on the side, the height of the pillow is of great importance - it should depend on the width of the shoulders of the sleeping person on it. That is, women are better off choosing thinner pillows than wide-shouldered men. Therefore, choosing the same thickness pillows for a double bed, many make a big mistake.
3. The pose on the side should be this: the head on the pillow, and the shoulder on the mattress. For this pose, rectangular euro pillows or round rollers are more suitable. As for the square pillows of the Soviet period - they occupy most of the bed and are not practical.
4. A thinner pillow is convenient for sleeping on the back - it ensures the correct position of the cervical spine, with which you can avoid development osteochondrosis. An important condition for choosing a pillow for sleeping on your back is to ensure a pose in which the head will not be thrown back.
5. The reclining position is unacceptable, so if the pillow was raised before going to bed to read a book or to watch TV, it should be lowered to a horizontal position before going to bed.

Right pillows

If earlier natural down and feather pillows and mattresses were valued, today orthopedists do not recommend them. In these soft products, both the head and most of the body are buried, while the spine is at a completely disadvantageous position.

Modern industry offers a variety of pillows for a proper and complete sleep with high-quality fillers and the effect of remembering the print from the head of a sleeping person. Should such pillows be used and are they really capable of providing a good rest during sleep? How to choose from many options?

The following recommendations will help to make the right choice:

1. Orthopedic products are designed so that they adapt to all the bends of the human body. They help to take a comfortable and proper posture for the sleeping person, providing the spine with a stable position. The fact is that pillows are needed to support the neck, not the head, so many orthopedic products have a special recess.
2. A light and plastic pillow can completely replace an orthopedic product if it has an oblong shape and a width of the smaller side of 40 cm. You should lie down on such a pillow correctly: only with your head. In the side position, you need to put part of the pillow under the neck, and the rest under the head, the shoulder on the pillow should not be.
3. There are also pillows filled with various natural ingredients, for example, buckwheat husk. The fact that they benefit the body as a whole is not proven, nor is it justified that they can harm. However, such a filler allows you to adjust the height in different parts of the pillow to a millimeter, and this is not so bad.

In order to ensure a correct and healthy sleep, one should seriously approach the choice of pillows. It will not only allow you to choose the right posture for sleep, in order to avoid problems with the spine, but also will help to improve the psycho-emotional state of a person - after all, stable sleep is also necessary for mental health.

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