What Is an Orthopaedic Mattress?

What Is an Orthopaedic Mattress?

An orthopaedic mattress is designed to provide you with a firm surface to sleep on, this type of mattress offers you targeted support in the areas that you need it the most, your back and your joint. Orthopaedic is a medial term, the field of orthopaedics looks at the functions of the spine and joints. Orthopaedic mattresses are usually used by people who are affected by back pain, although in more recent years the orthopaedic mattress has become more than just a mattress that is the solution for your back pains.

What is inside of an orthopaedic mattress?

You are able to get a orthopaedic mattress with many different types of support and comfort levels so there is an orthopaedic mattress that you can find that will suit you and your needs.  You are now able to buy an orthopaedic mattress with different fillings such as gel foam memory foam, standard springs, natural filling, latex, pocket springs and more.

What are the benefits of sleeping on an orthopaedic mattress?

• Healthy posture: sleeping on an orthopaedic mattress helps you easily adapt and correct your posture as you sleep, thus allowing your body to have healthier blood circulation thought the entire night.
• Spinal alignment: sleeping on an orthopaedic mattress allows you to sleep in a way that helps you correct your spinal alignment, thus decreasing back pain. If you relieve the stress and pressure that is put on your spine while you sleep, you dramatically decrease back pain.
• Support: an orthopaedic mattress has a firm surface which means that the mattress offers you the ideal push-back for the perfect sleeping position.
• Weight distribution: sleeping on a mattress like an orthopaedic mattress allows the weight of your body to be evenly distributed thus preventing the built-up pressure that would usually occur on your pressure points such as your joints, hips, neck, back and shoulder.