Your mattress plays a critical role in your sleep quality. When you are awake, you consciously make adjustments to sitting and standing postures to relieve discomfort and avoid damaging positions. When you are asleep, you are not conscious and can't react quickly to physical problems like back pain caused by a sag in the mattress, shoulder pressure, knee pain or others until, it becomes intense enough to disturb your sleep with continuous tossing and turning.

Eventually, these sleep problems begin to develop into symptoms and conditions that you see and feel during the day, such as:

• Back pain, Disc problems, and Arthritis
• Increased incidence of obesity, diabetes, illness in general, high blood pressure, and heart disease
• Impaired memory, poor concentration, and ability to learn
• Physical impairment, poor coordination, delayed reaction time
• Anxiety, depression, and other emotional problems

How you sleep determines how you feel, and not just during the night, but also during the day. Sleeping well brings obvious benefits like energy, better thought and decision making, and less aches and pains.

When you sleep, your muscles need to completely relax so the natural restorative and healing processes take place. When you sleep on a poor mattress, your muscles become tense, trying to compensate for poor support. The ideal mattress should provide each area of your body with a different and appropriate level of support. A mattress needs to conform to your shape, provide necessary comfort and ensure proper sleep posture to facilitate the natural restorative healing processes that occur during the night.

Sleep is a complex process that restores and prepares you mentally and physically for the next day. Your mattress plays a critical role in your sleep quality and daytime health and well being. Proper balanced support and alignment is essential for these restorative processes to occur as nature intended.

Your Spine:

Your spine is a complex system of muscles, ligaments, discs and vertebrae. They all work together to provide a unique combination of flexibility and stability. During the day, muscles work to actively position and move your back & ligaments, stabilize the vertebrae and your discs provide shock protection & motion, as well as "lubrication" of your spine. During this normal activity, the discs compress progressively throughout the day.

Sleep is an essential part of the restorative cycle for a healthy spine.

Most people lose between ½ and ¾ of an inch of combined disc height during the day. This is a normal process and results from absorbing impact and weight supported by the spine. Sleep is the best opportunity for these discs to restore. A proper sleep posture and spine alignment is critical during this restoration. A properly aligned spine will allow the discs to rehydrate and restore in a uniform shape. Poor posture from a mattress that sags, puts pressure and tension on discs & ligaments, setting the stage for uneven restoration, or worse yet, further wear. Poor mattress support can set the stage for a vicious cycle of continued decline of the condition of your spine and eventually lead to arthritis. 

Your mattress should support each part of your body like a good shoe supports your feet. As with a shoe, poor support will lead to stretching and distortion of the ligaments & tendons and wear on the joints. A properly designed mattress will support properly support you while you are sleeping, placing you in a relaxed, neutral position, provide firm lumbar support, softer conforming shoulder support and relaxed hip positioning.