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Proper Sleeping Posture for ‘Brain Drain’
- Apocryphon 8y agoShame that people with sleep apnea are advised to sleep on their backs. Though the article does mention that supine is still better than prone.
- trevyn 8y agoPeople with sleep apnea are advised to sleep with CPAP machines.
- Apocryphon 8y agoRight, but also on their back while wearing their masks.
- mchahn 8y ago> with sleep apnea are advised to sleep on their backs. Where did you hear that? I've had apnea and used cpap machines for over 20 years. I've been through 3 or 4 ent docs and none have said that. And I know from experience my whole life that lying on your back makes apnea much worse. And my mask allows me to sleep in any position, as close to face down as I did without it.
- jonhendry18 8y agoThat doesn't make any sense because it's worst when sleeping on your back. Sleeping on your side helps keep your airway clear. (The problem is that people often don't stay on their side.)
- MaupitiBlue 8y agoSleeping on my side kills my shoulders.
- OiNG 8y agosleeping on your side prefers a softer mattress then if you sleep on your back for this reason.
- RobertoG 8y ago>>"Sleeping on your side with a small pillow between your legs is considered the ideal sleeping position." What is the rationale behind the pillow between the legs?
- cleetus 8y agoAt least for me it's comfort - I don't like my boney knees knocking into each other.
- wmblaettler 8y agoProbably to help align the hips and lumbar spine, otherwise the top leg would twist your pelvis and spine with the downward pressure.
- noobly 8y agoAnd it works wonders. Nothing repairs my tired back faster than a few dedicated nights of sleeping like that.
- shakestheclown 8y agoI have heard before another reason is that it can help keep you from rotating into a different position. That's why I do it. Without the pillow I have 0% chance of staying on my side.
- leeeeech 8y agoThe pillow is probably activating a reflex to press the legs together. In other news, it's the Stabile Seitenlage [1] from first aid! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_position https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_position
- WalterSear 8y agoHip alignment.
- 1996 8y agoSleep on the side with a very large pillow (or a human sized stuffed animal!) It's soft to hug, and it allows to adjust not just the legs as mentionned in the article, but the shoulders as well.
- tuesdayrain 8y agoAnyone else able to sleep on their left side just fine but not on their right side? I'm in fairly good shape but for some reason sleeping on my right side just gives me a heavy feeling inside my chest that prevents me from falling asleep. I've wondered what the effects of a lifetime of sleeping on one side could be.
- neverminder 8y agoFor me it's the opposite - if I lie on my left I can feel uncomfortable pressure against the heart. In decent shape too, lifting weights for the last 7 years.
- annywhey 8y agoI attributed side bias to my scoliosis for a long time. But after I switched from a soft bed and traditional fluffy pillow to a more minimal blankets-over-floor with small pillow, this problem went away and I will use either side without difficulty.
- animal531 8y agoIgnoring physical/spine/chest issues it could just be a bit of acid reflux/heart burn.
- victor106 8y agoFor those who don’t know what lateral and supine sleeping positions are https://imgur.com/gallery/OuG6rBc https://imgur.com/gallery/OuG6rBc
- AlexanderNull 8y agoRATS. The research they cited was done on the sleeping posture of RATS, a quadrupedal, straight necked organism. I doubt it's very applicable overall to the difference between lateral and supine posture in humans so I wouldn't take this article to heart in order to adopt a sleeping position that's bad on your shoulders and sinus development. link: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/31/11034.short http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/31/11034.short