In the concept of many people, sleeping in a hard bed is good for the body’s bones, and when you get up, you won’t feel weak all over. However, not all people can sleep in hard beds, and hard beds are not what people understand as “hard beds”.
Indeed, if the bed is too soft, the pressure of human body weight will make the bed low in the middle and high around, which will affect the normal physiological flexion of the lumbar spine and cause contraction, tension and spasm of the lumbar muscles and ligaments. However, a bed that is too hard will also compress some parts of the human body, resulting in an increase in the number of turns during sleep and insufficient rest. In addition, a person’s spine is S-shaped, and if the bed is too hard, the normal curve of the spine cannot be maintained, the waist cannot be supported, and the back will be sour and painful after getting up.
In general, patients with lumbar protrusion and low back pain, as well as some patients in the rehabilitation period after fracture surgery, should sleep more on hard plank beds. Normal people and infants should not sleep in a bed that is too hard, especially from birth to the age of 3. If the bed is too hard, it will be harmful to the child’s bone development.
If you have a hard board bed at home, you can put a cushion of about 10cm thick on it, or put a brown cushion on the board bed. If you still feel hard, you can add a cushion of 5-8cm thick. There is a simple way to judge whether the hardness of the bed is appropriate: lie flat on the bed and press your hands under your waist. If your hands are pressed and difficult to pull out, it means that the hardness is appropriate.
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