What are the benefits of sleeping on a hard bed

In fact, people need to sleep for 1/3 of their lives, so sleep is very important for people. Poor sleep quality may affect the health of the human body, so the choice of bed is very critical. Many people think that a soft bed should be more comfortable to sleep on, but if you sleep on a soft bed frequently, your waist muscles will relax, which may cause some lumbar disc herniation. At this time, it is best to sleep on a hard bed to alleviate the condition.

The significance of sleeping on a hard bed: The normal human spine is straight. Viewed from the side, the spine has four physiological curves, which looks like an "S" shape. The basic requirement for the bed is to maintain the normal physiological state of the spine, maintaining a straight line in the back view and a physiological curvature in the side view. But when sleeping on a Simmons bed, no matter what posture you adopt, it is easy to sink into it and it is difficult to turn over, and the middle part of the body tends to sink, which changes the normal physiological state of the spine, relaxes the muscles on the upward side of the body, and passively tightens the muscles on the sunken part of the cushion. As a result, the muscles in the lower back cannot get a good rest, resulting in the above problems when getting up in the morning.

Lumbar disc herniation is closely related to degeneration, weight-bearing and body posture. After the annulus fibrosus of the intervertebral disc is strained and ruptured, discogenic low back pain may occur clinically, and the symptoms can be relieved by treatment and rest. If you do not pay attention to protection, long-term weight-bearing or trauma can cause the nucleus pulposus to protrude and fall out of the ruptured annulus fibrosus, stimulating and compressing the nerve roots, causing inflammatory exudation and edema. It aggravates the damage of the nucleus pulposus to the nerve roots, leading to low back and leg pain. 80% of patients with lumbar disc herniation can significantly relieve their symptoms through non-surgical treatment and lying on a plank bed. If you sleep on a bed that is too soft, the pressure of your body weight will make the bed low in the middle and high around, which will affect the normal physiological flexion of the lumbar spine, causing contraction, tension and spasm of the waist muscles and ligaments, thereby aggravating the symptoms.

In addition to protecting the waist, sleeping on a hard bed is also important for elderly people with heart disease. Generally, rescue for sudden death from heart disease mainly takes place on the spot. If rescue is timely, the patient can often turn danger into safety. The cardiac compression rescue technique must be performed on a hard board, so it is best for elderly people with heart disease to sleep on a hard bed.

Of course, sleeping on a hard bed does not mean that you have to sleep on a hardwood bed. Some elderly people have spinal deformities due to osteoporosis, so they cannot sleep on a hard bed. The bed suitable for the elderly should maintain the normal physiological lordosis of the lumbar spine when the body is in the supine position, and keep the lumbar spine from scoliosis when lying on the side, so as long as the mattress has a certain hardness, it will be fine.

This is because when people sleep on a hard bed, the spine is in a straight line, which will allow the waist and abdomen to get better rest, so it will not aggravate their waist diseases. However, sleeping on a hard bed does not necessarily mean sleeping on a hard wooden bed. For some elderly people, it is best not to sleep on a hard wooden bed, otherwise it is likely to cause deformation of the spine.