Comfortable sleeping position

[Tips] Comfortable sleeping position. No doubt the importance of sleep for health. But apparently not the case closed his eyes to sleep alone. One vote sleeping position can cause you to wake up in a state of aching or stiff neck and sore. Consider the position of sleeping to do and which ones should be avoided.

Sleep on your back

This sleep position is ideal to prevent pain in the neck and back, reducing the reflux of stomach acid, minimizing wrinkles and keep the breast form that is not easy to loose.

Unfortunately this supine sleeping position can cause snoring. For those who snore often are advised to use a soft pillow for the head and neck are not propped up too high. Sleep on your back are also often causes back pain, because it put a pillow under your knees so the legs slightly bent. If the bedding is too soft, put the board thickness of approximately 1 cm below the sheets.

Sleep on

In general, side sleeping position is good for health because it is effective to reduce snoring. Sleeping position with knees bend and slightly raised toward the chest with a pillow clamped highly recommended to prevent back pain.

Side sleeping position is most comfortable sleeping position for pregnant women. In addition to the blood circulation, while the enlarged abdomen, supine sleeping position can make the shortness of breath.

The downside of this sleeping position is to accelerate the onset of wrinkles on the face. "All the pressure will be on one side facing the pillow. This position also cause breast sagging fast," said Dr.Roshini Rajapaksa, medical editor of Health magazine.

The position of the curved

Sleeping position on your side with knees bent and slightly raised to the chest such as fetal position is not recommended. "The position of this curve will push the diaphragm so that it can interfere with breathing," said Dody Chang, acupuncturist from the Center for Integrative Medicine, USA.

He added that this curved sleeping position can also cause back pain, facial wrinkles faster, and the breasts sag. Nevertheless fetal position sleeping style is often perceived uncomfortable by pregnant women.

Sleep on his stomach

For those who often complain of back pain, you should avoid the prone sleeping position, but given a wedge pillow stomach. Sleeping position like this is difficult to maintain a neutral position for the spine.

Sleeping on his stomach will put pressure on joints and muscles that irritate nerves and cause pain, and numbness. Also in this position the head will be on one side in a long time so that the neck will be stiff.

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source : health.kompas.com