Sleeping is vital for our health, because when we rest our body repairs and generates energy. In order to function properly, we need a decent night’s sleep. Every person sleeps around 7-9 hours every night, or 25 years of their lifetime, which is a lot of time when you think like this. But it’s not just how much you sleep, you must be in a correct sleeping position, as this brings a high-quality sleep.
Random sleeping positions can take different effects on everyone. Therefore, it can affect our health positively and negatively.
This is why you should know, what is the perfect sleeping position for your health issues. There are sleeping positions that impact numerous aspects such as back pain, sinus problems, high blood pressure.
Treat these 9 health problems with the right sleeping position:
1. Sinus Problems
Elevating your head while sleeping can prevent fluids from collecting in your sinuses, which causes difficulty breathing and interrupted sleep.
Simply placing an extra pillow under your head will promote a more restful sleep.
2. Heartburn/Indigestion
The pain associated with heartburn/indigestion can be relieved by sleeping on your left side. Lying on the left keeps the point at which your esophagus meets your stomach elevated to prevent the reflux of gastric acid.
Lying on your ride side has the opposite effect, because it allows the mechanism which closes off the esophagus from the stomach to relax.
3. Neck Pain
To relieve neck pain, you should place a small rolled towel under your neck.
4. Shoulder Pain
You can relieve shoulder pain if you sleep on the right side with your knees bent a bit. For better results, you can place a pillow between your knees, and another one next to the chest with your arms around it.
4. High Blood Pressure
While further study is needed, recent research conducted by Yasuharu Tabara of Ehime University School of Medicine in Ehime, Japan has discovered that sleeping face down can reduce blood pressure and prevent nocturnal heart attacks. Subjects in the study[1] saw an immediate drop in their blood pressure by adopting this sleeping posture.
There’s a sleeping position suited to numerous health problems. But when it comes to sleep apnea, position alone may not solve the problem, especially in those who suffer from it in its most severe form.
5. PMS discomfort and pain
Place a pillow under your knees to prevent arching your spine, and soothe the pain and PMS discomfort.
6. Headaches
Headaches are often caused by a twisted neck during sleep, so it is best to surround your head with pillows and prevent this.
7. Digestion Problems
Sleeping on the left side can be beneficial, and gravity will boost the digestive process since the stomach is located on the left side of your body.
8. Back Pain
Back pain is a leading global health challenge, with fully 80% of the world’s people suffering from it at some point in their lives.
Doctors recommend that back pain sufferers sleep on their backs, with a pillow rolled up under their knees. This sleep position promotes a healthy spine curvature, relieving pressure on the lumbar vertebrae.
