"Solutions for Better Sleep: Positions to Relieve Pain and Stiffness" is a well- illustrated, user-friendly, self-help book that explains how readers can improve their sleeping positions and body mechanics to avoid the nagging pain and stiffness that so many experience upon awakening.
Positions that twist the neck or back can make your sleep more restless and can harm your spine and nervous system. They can cause headaches, back pain, disc bulging and even sciatica. Poor sleeping positions make it harder to get out of bed, more difficult to stand up straight and can cause you to wake up feeling tired, groggy and irritable, instead of rested.
Filled with colorful pictures of how and how not to sleep, "Solutions for Better Sleep," will show you a variety ways to properly use pillows and positions to improve your body mechanics and protect your spine and nervous system while you sleep. It has step-by-step instructions for safely getting into and out of bed, and for reading in bed. It even has several practical and easy to implement tips for those trying to sleep with carpal tunnel, reflux and respiratory conditions.
There are chapters on "Sleeping with Others", "Suffocating Stomach Sleeping," "Better Back Sleeping," and "Safer Side Sleeping." Other chapters discuss the role of the nervous system, disc bulging and why optimizing your sleep and health are important. The book reviews a variety of beds, mattresses, wedges and pillow; clearly demonstrates how to make your own custom body pillow; and much more.
This book is for anyone who wishes to wake up refreshed, pain free and flexible.
