Sleeping Positions

Lets discuss the different positions that you want to get in when sleeping that will help prevent your hips, your neck and your lower back from getting out of place. If you’re a back sleeper, I would stay with the back sleeping – don’t change, that’s actually good position but what you want to do is lay on your back and have a pillow under your head to have it slightly elevated. You don’t want three or four pillows where you’re head is lifted too much, you want to have it slightly elevated so your upper back is slightly elevated. Then you take a pillow and tuck it under your legs, that alleviates the pressure on the hips and the lower back and it helps keep the natural curvature of your back. Next, if you’re a side sleeper I tell people to stay side sleeping because it’s more comfortable. Have your head slightly elevated and put the pillow between your knees so that your knees and hips are parallel to each other. You can also take a long body pillow that they make and you can tuck it between your legs and wrap your arms around it and what that will do is prevent shoulder strain, tension headaches and it’ll keep you from tossing and turning. Those are some quick ideas to help help you sleep a little bit better.

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