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5 Tips For Choosing The Right Mattress
It costs a lot of money, it will change the way you sleep (and live) and it comes in hundreds of models and brands. No wonder choosing the best mattress sounds like mission impossible. Water, inner spring, air, latex, feather, organic, magnetic memory foam mattresses - they all look and sound very good in the show rooms. But which of them is the best for you?
What you need right now is a list with the most important criteria in evaluating your candidates. These are the top 5 sleep tips you must consider when comparing two or several mattresses that you placed in your wish list.
Comfort Because comfort is a very personal thing, the only way to find the most comfortable mattress is to sleep on it. No matter what your doctor, friends or neighbors tell you, a mattress can improve sleep quality only if YOU will feel comfortable sleeping on it. Often, deciding whether you like the feeling of a mattress or not, a show room trial is not enough. Ask for a mattress home trial the of 5 nights or more. A memory foam mattress may need up to 6 weeks to fully get used to sleeping on it. Many memory foam manufacturers give home-trials of 3 months.
Support Support is very important especially if you suffer from neck, joint, hip or back pain. Proper support means even weight distribution, right spinal alignment and general physical comfort during sleep. A very soft mattress, for example, will never offer enough support, because your body will sink right through. The best support on the market is offered now by memory foam thanks to their firm, supportive core and its body contouring abilities. Latex and air mattresses also have some of the best support on the market.
Pressure relief When you lie on the bed, your body weight pulls you down and the mattress pushes back at you, while your skin and blood vessels are caught in between. This causes the so-called pressure points, which force you to toss and turn all night and make you feel numb and sore in the morning. Fortunately, there are several sleeping surfaces that considerably reduce pressure points by contouring your body: latex, memory foam, air and water mattresses.
Before we go ahead and talk about the other mattress comparing criteria, find out why in-store tryouts are irrelevant for deciding memory foam mattress comfort.
Medical benefits First of all, don’t let all the manufacturers trick you into believing that their mattress can cure this or that. There are no relevant medical tests to prove that any mattress is able to treat insomnia, fibromyalgia, apnea or other ailments. What a good mattress can do is ease the pain and help give you a more restful sleep. For example, air mattresses are recommended for people recovering from hip surgery, inner spring mattresses can help with acute back spasms, while waterbeds can improve sleep for pregnant women. Talk to your physicist and browse the Internet for customer reviews, these are the objective sources for medical benefits of mattresses. Memory foam mattresses and latex mattresses are popular with many sufferers.
Price A mattress can cost anywhere between $200 and 3,000, depending on the type, model, brand and size. The most expensive are Tempur Pedic memory foam and Talalay latex mattresses, which get most of the market’s attention these days. A cheap mattress will not last more than a few months and will probably not provide the benefits a more expensive product can. For example, a $2,000 visco memory foam mattress may seem expensive, but if you consider its advantages and a life span of 10 years and more, the $ 1.5 per night of relaxing sleep doesn’t seem that much, does it?
About the Author
Daniel Burrows offers in-depth advice on visco memory foam mattresses to help you find the perfect mattress. His most popular tool is the mattress comparison tool
