Have you ever woken up feeling sick and weak?
And the fundamental reason for this is sleeping position!
If you don't sleep well, you will have a headache, neck pain, back pain, and sometimes even wake up in the middle of the night feeling weak.
Sleep on your back
When lying on your back, the mattress will support our spine. When sleeping on your back, your back is straight, not bent or twisted, which has a positive effect on our spine and neck.
When sleeping on your back, your neck is in a neutral position, so it is not easy to cushion the pillow too high. Too high will cause cervical discomfort, get up in the morning will feel sore, and even affect breathing. Sometimes, you can sleep comfortably without a pillow.
Side sleep
It is wrong to sleep on your side, and you will feel uncomfortable when you wake up the next day. The correct way to open the side sleep is this!
Put a pillow between your knee and ankle. (Objective: To straighten the skeletal position of the upper body)
This is to ensure that the hip joint, knee joint and ankle joint are in a horizontal line, so as not to cause muscle tension in the hip or lower back.
Of course, many people prefer to put one leg in front. This will bring great torsion to the hip joint and lower back, causing discomfort and even pain.
Using a pillow under the knee to ensure that the hip joint, knee joint and ankle are in a horizontal line can improve the original bad sleeping posture.
Put a pillow between your arms and your chest. (Objective: To straighten the skeletal position of the upper body)
There are still many people who will involuntarily curl up when sleeping on their side, which will cause the upper body spine to twist and excessive chest hugging, leading to muscle tension.
Most of us have bad posture when we are awake. If we continue to be nervous when we sleep, we can imagine the condition of our cervical spine.
In order to improve this situation, we need to put a pillow between our arms and our chest. In this way, the spine will be in a natural position, and it will not be excessively twisted, and the chest and muscles will not be excessively tense.
Select the appropriate pillow height (purpose: to reduce unnecessary neck pressure)
The height of the pillow is also critical. Too high or too high a pillow will bring unnecessary pressure to the neck.
Go to sleep on your stomach
Many people like to sleep on their stomachs, even if they don't sleep on their stomachs, they feel unable to sleep. Sleeping on your stomach is the best sleeping position. Because, when sleeping in prone position, the spine is in an unnatural state, and the muscles from the neck to the upper back and then to the lower back will be in a state of tension. Excessive reverse arch in the lower back can also cause low back pain. Coupled with the constant twisting of one side of the head, it will also make the cervical spine twist for a long time, causing neck pain. Leg posture can also make leg muscles tense and stretch to varying degrees. Day after day, it can cause muscle fatigue and pain.
What happens if you can't sleep well?
Our spine has unique physiological curvature, including cervical curvature and lumbar curvature; Under normal circumstances, the muscles, tissues and bones of our body should avoid being in an incorrect posture for a long time to prevent repeated compression injuries. The correct and ideal sleeping position should be to maintain the normal physiological curvature of the spine and ensure the natural relaxation of the whole body muscles. Otherwise, 8 hours' sleep and years' repetition will cause spine or physical discomfort, such as stiff neck.
Everyone has their own sleeping habits, so there is no fixed requirement for sleeping posture, but generally speaking, it is recommended that you choose the posture of lying on the right side, because this posture has less pressure on the heart and lungs, and the probability of having nightmares during sleep will be greatly reduced, which is of great help to improve people's sleep quality. If you have some unhealthy sleep habits, you must correct them in time to prevent harm to your body.