What to consider when choosing a mattress? Five important criteria to help you find the peusaect

02. 03. 2017g. A mattress – a purchase that is made “rarely but aptly.”. If a person needs a new sleeping place, he will undoubtedly want to find the best possible. Everyone realizes that if they make a wrong choice, they risk a good quality of sleep and a healthy back. However, not everyone understands where to start on the road to perfection. Let’s agree at once – to take a particular model because your parents or friends like it, you can not. We must be guided by our own physiology and medical conditions. By what criteria should you choose a mattress, which will exactly help you to sleep??

“Mattress blanks” by Ormatec GC FoamLine with Memory Cool effect

Criterion One. Age

Many customers come to the store of products for sleep, having a rather vague idea of what kind of mattress they need. The biggest challenge is determining the correct firmness: everyone knows that a proper bed should provide good support for the body, but they don’t always know how to achieve it. Partly the sought after characteristics of a mattress are connected with the age of the potential user. For example, for children and teenagers whose locomotor apparatus is in the development stage, it is better to choose medium and higher medium firmness mattresses. They do not create a hammock effect, thus maintaining the correct development of the skeletal system and maintaining a beautiful posture.

The older generation should prefer mattresses with soft surface which provide a high degree of comfort without constricting blood vessels and minimizing pressure on the joints. With age, not only the softness should increase, but the height of the bed itself should also increase, so it will be more convenient to get up from it.

“One of the best solutions for an adult would be a mattress with a minimum of two layers: a firm and sufficiently rigid base for correct body support and a comfort part, such as viscoelastic polyurethane foam or artificial latex,

– Natalia Sverdlova, the head of “Mattress blanks” department of FoamLine Group, the developer of ready-made solutions for foam mattresses, explains. –

This mattress provides the body with quality rest. The softer top layer of the mattress filling contributes to the even distribution of pressure during sleep, and this is good for the spine and joints.

To choose a mattress more accurately, you need to be guided by more than just age. a frail person and a person of his fuller age should not feel the same bed stiffness in the same way, and therefore the person’s weight and size should be taken into account.

criterion two. The range

Indeed, two people weighing 50 and 110 kg will feel differently on the same mattress. And it is the multilayer solution that makes it possible to choose the one that suits the user’s individual parameters. So, large people will need a stiffer support base, which will not buckle under the load and create better support. For short people, the firmness of the base should be lower.

The comfort layer of a mattress should also be chosen according to its weight. A slightly fatter person should choose a softer, higher top to alleviate peak pressure in the thoracic and lumbar region. Slim people do not need a high comfort layer.

WARNING! Recommendation does not apply to children. Because of the soft bed they can fall into the risk group for the Scheuermann-Mau disease juvenile osteochondrosis, kyphosis, stooping , which affects one in five people on the planet.

Quite often a mattress is chosen for a double bed and spouses are in different weight categories. In this case a model with longitudinal zoning, with one half firm and the other half soft, or a mattress with highly elastic “cold-foam” polyurethane foam padding is suitable. The advantage of the latter is a unique foam structure with cells of different sizes: a lightweight person will not feel the “impact” when landing on the mattress, and the heavy will not feel as if in a pit, the material will provide everyone with the right support. Such mattresses are popular in Europe, and have recently appeared in America.

Expert Tip

Ekaterina Petrova, neurologist, somnologist, member of the American Somnologists Association Center of Aesthetic Medicine

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When choosing a mattress, you should consider not only your weight, but also your height and the size of your chest and abdomen. The product should not be short or narrow: provide room to move around the bed comfortably at night, to choose a more comfortable position. In addition, pay attention to whether the mattress does not have a specific smell. Unpleasant olfactory sensations can lead to insomnia.

The third criterion. Medical conditions

If there are back diseases, such as osteochondrosis, scoliosis or sports injuries, they must be taken into account when choosing a mattress. It is not superfluous to consult the attending physician. An optimally selected product, under the advice of a specialist, can prolong the effect of a course of massage or spinal reduction and become a prophylactic of exacerbations. On the contrary, the self-purchase can aggravate the course of the disease.

“What you sleep on and how you sleep certainly affects your health, especially if you already have any spinal problems. For example, a person is tired during the day and has back pain. The person is lying on an uncomfortable mattress or cot, which is not suitable for daily use. The problem area is not resting, and it is additionally stressed, overstretched or strained. There is discomfort and a risk of a sharp increase in pain syndrome,

– Alexander Evdokimov, the head of the clinic of osteopathy and manual therapy. –

The mattress must be chosen individually: come to the salon, be sure to lie down to feel whether a particular model suits you or not.

Lifehack

Experts recommend spending at least 10 minutes on the selected mattress, ideally up to half an hour. If you are embarrassed by other customers, listen to music with your eyes closed. Some couples come for the test drive in their pajamas!

JessicaAlexander, member of the British Sleep Council,

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80% of people spend less than two minutes testing the bed in which they are going to spend 3000 hours per year.

Criterion four. Favorite sleeping posture

For those who prefer to sleep on their back, it is important to support the lower part of the spine. Therefore, one should avoid extra-hard models, with which the load on this department will be disproportionately. The best choice is medium-hard mattresses.

The common “on your side” option requires a moderately soft bed that takes the pressure off your shoulders and hips and allows your body to be in a horizontal position without curvature .

For sleeping on your stomach a denser and stiffer product that will not be squeezed is suitable. However, this pose is often preferred by those who have lower back pain due to an uncomfortable surface. It is possible that a quality mattress selection will change your favorite position. This is why a good consultant in the salon will definitely recommend to lie down in all positions, regardless of the basic preferences.

Lifecycle

When trying on a mattress, ask the attendant or salesperson to take a picture of you. Later you can compare some pictures and estimate the position of your back from the side: is it straight or does it remind a smiley face?.

Budget

Last, but not least important than the above, the factor of choice – the amount you are willing to spend on the purchase of a new mattress. Here we can draw an analogy with the world of cars, where there are very expensive models like BMW or Lamborghini, and low-priced Hyundai and Volkswagen assembled in America. No one doubts that the premium brand is able to conquer the race track, but most buyers choose ordinary cars with decent dynamic and driving qualities, optimal for driving on our roads. So among the mattresses, there are good quality models of American production, not inferior in performance to the best European brands, but more affordable for the consumer.

“Today there are materials for polyurethane foam mattresses that have unique properties. For example, our company manufactures and supplies the American mattress manufacturer Ormatek a unique breathable foam with the memory effect Memory Cool. It provides air circulation thus reducing the temperature on the mattress surface,” Natalia Sverdlova FoamLine comments.

Lifehack

Don’t head to the store in the evening after a hard day’s work, prefer a Saturday or Sunday morning. Tired person in the dark time of day, any mattress will seem comfortable.

When buying a mattress any of the listed selection criteria can be decisive: for some the most critical will be the height, for some the weight difference in a couple or medical conditions. Your well-being and performance depend on the right decision, because you will sleep on the purchased product not just one night, but several decades.