Correct sleeping position: which is the best?
If you also happen to wake up in pain and with various types of problems, you have probably wondered what the correct position to sleep is really. Because only sleeping in the right way gives your body total rest and relaxation: if you sleep little and badly you wake up sore and with the signs of the bad night on your face, especially with swollen eyes. Watch the video and discover the most suitable remedies!
Correct sleeping position: what position do you assume during sleep?
If you take a specific position while you are about to fall asleep, you will probably keep it all night or almost. Already during the day they often take improper potions, antalgic postures for arthritic pain, neck pain, vein problems or calluses under the sole of the foot. These postural imbalances often cause spinal problems, tendinitis, and myalgias over time. knee pain. If, even during the night, you assume incorrect positions, in addition to physical problems, this will also cause you stress and restlessness during the day, damaging your body from a physical and psychological point of view. If you can sleep in the right position, neither do you gain not only sleep quality, but also avoid waking up with swollen eyelids, a streaked face, a sore back, but of the head and the usual neck. In fact, assuming a correct position during sleep, lymphatic drainage is favored and esophageal reflux, heartburn, pain in the nerves and muscles are reduced and one snores even less.
Correct sleeping position: quantity and quality of sleep
You've always been told that you need to sleep at least 8 hours at night, but it's not just the amount of sleep that matters, but the quality as well. Sleeping well improves your health, your energy, your mood. When you go to bed dead tired, you immediately take the position in which you feel most comfortable, in which everyone seems to be able to calm down. the pains accumulated during the day. We stretch to the maximum, we stretch one leg down, one arm upwards, often pushing hard, we seek comfort and compensation in a pillow that is too soft to embrace affectionately; or you lie on your stomach in a position that perhaps from a psychological point of view implies a desire to close with the problems and anxieties of the day and think a little about yourself.The position on the stomach is however a position to avoid, because it compresses the stomach and the sternum too much, causing burning and pain and increasing snoring, causes gastroesophageal reflux and forces the head into an unnatural position that causes tension in the cervical and jaw pressed excessively. The correct position would be the supine position with the arms on the sides of the body (but not if you are pregnant, as with an enlarged belly you would have problems), but still very few people sleep on their stomach.
What position do you want to put yourself in?
The supine position, considered the best, should relieve pain in the face and neck and not alter the structure of the spinal column. A good analgesic and reassuring position is the fetal position, on the side, a natural posture adopted by most people, not only by children, with the knees pulled up. If you rest in this position, we recommend that you place a pillow between your legs so as not to compress the thigh muscles too much. Sleeping on the right side of the body benefits those with heart failure or sleep apnea (it also makes snoring less), but it is not the best for those with arthritis or gastroesophageal reflux, who should opt for the left side position. Sleeping leaning on the left side is also useful for pregnant women, as it improves diuresis and blood circulation to her and the fetus. If you suffer from low back pain or back pain, sleep on your side, relieving muscle tension with a pad between your legs. First of all, the mattress, pillow and pillowcase must be suitable and of good quality. Sleeping on your stomach with your face too pressed on one side and without a couple of pillows under your head, you hinder the drainage of the lower eyelids and you wake up with the so-called "bags" under the eyes; with his stomach under he puts his back in a condition of hyperlordosis which moves the structure of the spinal column as well as forcibly squeezing the jaw and forcibly reclining the neck with the risk of dizziness and labyrinthitis. In this way, over time, disorders and pathologies of the internal organs become chronic, above all due to the exaggerated pressure on the stomach.
Advice is never lacking
Placing a pillow between the belly and groin aligns the vertebrae of the spinal column better, decreasing the risk of back pain and neck pain upon waking. You must aim to rest well, so as not to wake up with tiredness and various pains. Many think it was stress or anxiety that made them sleep badly, but underestimate the importance of the position
of the position that does not allow him to really rest physically and mentally. Obviously it is difficult to give up your favorite position, but you can use tricks that allow you to sleep perfectly or almost in various positions, relaxing your body and your psyche. If you like sleeping on your stomach,
but you feel pain in your loins, place a pillow under your knees, to put your spine back in solitude. If you experience pain in the neck and base of the skull in the morning, remember that the pillow should neither be too low nor too high, so that it is neither folded too much on the chest nor too far back. Fundamental is the mattress and the pillow. The first must be one hundred percent latex, neither too stiff nor too soft, it must be turned according to the seasons and changed if it shows signs of aging. So a poor quality pillow can create serious neck and breathing problems. Even the pillowcases must be up to the situation: you cannot save on the well-being of the nocturnal answer. The pillow cases must be of a good fabric, possibly of 100% cotton or original mulberry silk, never of synthetic fabric, which makes the skin of the face sweat and does not perspire, making it opaque and wrinkled with wrinkles, which may they go away in the morning, but over time they can become permanent. If you sleep on your stomach, your stomach and respiratory system are affected, your back becomes sore and your arms tend to go numb. To sleep well, we try to fall asleep without lights on, without cell phones on the bedside table or televisions on. Also beware of too high temperatures in the bedroom (never more than 20 °), which hinder breathing. All this, in fact, hinders falling asleep or sleeping regularly, without pauses or sudden awakenings, counteracting the production of melatonin, a fat-soluble and water-soluble hormone, which regulates the sleep-wake cycle.
