Today, i want to talk to you about shoulder problems and pillows, are your pillows or your sleeping habits causing your shoulder problems?
I’ll give you top tips on how to stop that from happening!
The first and most common question i get asked is. What is the right type of pillow?
we have foam pillows, we’ve got feather pillows, we’ve got pillows that made from bamboo and a good pillow is something that will support your neck.
The problem with these soft pillows is that while you scrunch them up to fill the little spaces in your neck, when you sleep, you move and that space gets taken away.
What happens is, is that your spine is not supported for about a third of your life. So, you’re about seven or eight hour person a day. It’s going to affect you for a long portion of your life.
We recommend using the contour pillows, especially these contour pillows, because they have little inserts in them so you can raise or drop the pillow. If you’re getting neck or shoulder problems, maybe this would be the best solution for you. But it’s not just the type of pillow. It’s also how you sleep.
Here is a spine, and here is a pillow there are two things that you need to remember when sleeping on your side or on your back.
When you’re sleeping on your back, you need to have a low-profile pillow with the curve. It’s going properly align your spine, so when you lay on your back, it’ll move your neck in this position your neck is in that position.
it has the least amount of pressure on your muscles on your nerves and allows you have a nice comfortable sleep with no air blockages.
if you use two pillows for example, two pillows will cause the neck to push forward and strain the muscles, straining the ligaments and narrowing that airway. If you have snoring problems sometimes having the correct pillow can actually be the best solution for you.
Now, if you’re a side sleeper, you need to have a higher profile. There is a big gap between your shoulder and your neck then there is if you’re lying on your back so the side posture, we want to have the larger site.
Make sure that the pillow is at the right height. So that your neck. It doesn’t go down or worse, if your pillow is too high you could be sleeping with your spine out of alignment. Final tip with sleeping on your side we will use this pillow is an example. As i lay down you may see that neck fits perfectly.