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Question... how did your back feel sleeping on a hammock for a year?

Theodores 9y ago
Hammocks are not a problem for the back just so long as there is sufficient tension in the strings and that the hammock does not hang too low. You sleep with your feet up - good after a day on your feet - and, because your body weight pulls the hammock straight, you have a very well supported and straight back. Once in a hammock there is no 'swaying', the feeling is more like being in a flotation tank. If you have enough duvet, pillows, blankets and the like you can sleep in other positions and move with relative ease. I badly pulled a calf muscle once and spent a fortnight getting back to strength, given the option of a normal double bed or a hammock slung above, I found at the hammock provided me with the sleep I could not get in the normal bed below. Sadly I had to move from that attic room and I lost the anchor points needed for the hammock. I believe a hammock offers better support and comfort for a back.
nwatson 9y ago
In hammocks from Brazil you sleep diagonal to the "axis" of the hammock and your body is almost rod-straight. Your back will feel just fine after a night sleeping like this.
- DashRattlesnake 9y ago
  > In hammocks from Brazil you sleep diagonal to the "axis" of the hammock and your body is almost rod-straight. Can you find a pic demonstrating what you mean?
  - aashishkoirala 9y ago
    http://www.treklightgear.com/treklife/hammock-angle/ http://www.treklightgear.com/treklife/hammock-angle/ ... skip to where it talks about the angle.
    - DashRattlesnake 9y ago
      That's some website, forcing me to enable javascript so I can use their "totally necessary" custom scrollbar </getoffmylawn> Anyway, that's interesting. Thanks!
    - RangerScience 9y ago
      Neat! There really is interesting stuff to learn about everything.
blhack 9y ago
Incredible. Every time I feel like my back is sore or hurts for some reason, I hang my hammock back up and sleep in it.

Hammocks are not a problem for the back just so long as there is sufficient tension in the strings and that the hammock does not hang too low. You sleep with your feet up - good after a day on your feet - and, because your body weight pulls the hammock straight, you have a very well supported and straight back. Once in a hammock there is no 'swaying', the feeling is more like being in a flotation tank. If you have enough duvet, pillows, blankets and the like you can sleep in other positions and move with relative ease. I badly pulled a calf muscle once and spent a fortnight getting back to strength, given the option of a normal double bed or a hammock slung above, I found at the hammock provided me with the sleep I could not get in the normal bed below. Sadly I had to move from that attic room and I lost the anchor points needed for the hammock. I believe a hammock offers better support and comfort for a back.

nwatson 9y ago

In hammocks from Brazil you sleep diagonal to the "axis" of the hammock and your body is almost rod-straight. Your back will feel just fine after a night sleeping like this.

DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> In hammocks from Brazil you sleep diagonal to the "axis" of the hammock and your body is almost rod-straight. Can you find a pic demonstrating what you mean?
- aashishkoirala 9y ago
  http://www.treklightgear.com/treklife/hammock-angle/ http://www.treklightgear.com/treklife/hammock-angle/ ... skip to where it talks about the angle.
  - DashRattlesnake 9y ago
    That's some website, forcing me to enable javascript so I can use their "totally necessary" custom scrollbar </getoffmylawn> Anyway, that's interesting. Thanks!
  - RangerScience 9y ago
    Neat! There really is interesting stuff to learn about everything.

blhack 9y ago

Incredible. Every time I feel like my back is sore or hurts for some reason, I hang my hammock back up and sleep in it.