How you position your body while you sleep, or your sleep posture, dramatically influences the quality of your rest and your overall mood when you wake up. It can even affect how your body moves and feels throughout the day. Today, adjustable beds are increasingly recognized for their ability to improve sleep. But how do they accomplish this exactly? They enhance the potential for maintaining a neutral body posture, amongst many other advantages.
The National Library of Medicine explains, “A potentially modifiable risk factor that aggravates spinal symptoms is sleep posture.” Additionally, "waking pain and stiffness were the most common symptoms explored, and side lying was generally protective against spinal symptoms.''
Imagine the difference it makes— waking up stiff and sore versus feeling loose, relaxed, and recharged. How you feel when you wake up influences your mental and physical motivation and day-to-day life! So, which state of being sounds more appealing? How do you hope to feel when you wake up? Comfy and rejuvenated, an easy choice! Today, prioritizing your sleep posture with a BT6500 adjustable bed could be the key to transforming your wake-up-and-go time!
Sleep Posture Impacts Sleep Quality
The Bed Tech sleep experts don't necessarily love highlighting the potential outcomes of insufficient sleep quality or bad sleep posture, also called static posture. Still, waking up feeling unrelaxed with muscle tension often results from a lack of support provided by your mattress or sleeping in an awkward position. The great news is that an adjustable bed can certainly help! Doctors recommend using an adjustable bed, too.
Likewise, an entire night of sleep where your body lies in an awkward position can trigger your sore spots or problem areas; sometimes, you won't notice these sore areas are "activated" until you're awake. While you lounge or sleep, poor posture puts added pressure on the spine. If you're having trouble sleeping or have chronic pain, it's even more important to focus on your sleep position and use a properly fitting pillow and mattress that supports your body type.
Ultimately, your sleep posture influences neck pain, as well as hip and back pain or discomfort. For instance, sciatica may worsen due to poor posture, putting pressure on the affected nerve. At the same time, your sleep position and posture can also contribute negatively or positively to managing symptoms of sleep-related health conditions like acid reflux and sleep apnea.
Continue reading to explore the best preset and customizable positions that modern adjustable beds, such as the BT3000, have to offer sleepers like you! Bed Tech is enthusiastic about sharing these convenient and beneficial adjustable bed positions— don't miss out on these valuable opportunities to help you sleep better!
#1 Most Popular: Zero Gravity Positioning
The Zero Gravity position offered by a BT2500 adjustable bed puts you in the “tension-free zone” by inclining your back and elevating your legs above the heart, creating an approximate 120-degree bend at the hips. This spine-neutralizing position, also referred to as ZG or Zero-G, promotes natural spine alignment and helps disperse your body weight more evenly. In turn, this takes the pressure off different points along the body that may otherwise be uncomfortable while lying on a flat surface. The ZG position is especially recommended for back sleepers and anyone with back or joint pain.
Zero-gravity positioning, performed by an adjustable bed, conveniently lifts your body into an intended position for optimal comfort and the sensation of weightlessness. Next stop: feeling relieved from unnecessary intense pain or heavy pressure that surrounded you once before!
Zero-G: Imagining How it Feels
Picture yourself on a cozy mattress— perhaps it's your own, or maybe you're just letting your imagination take you there. Now visualize yourself with an adjustable bed with remote in hand; press one button to smoothly elevate your head and feet until you reach your desired destination— the Zero Gravity position.
Zero-G can help you feel a weightless sensation without the weight from gravity pressing you down, providing a micro-gravity-like environment that's a great sleep position for those who mostly sleep on their backs. In Zero-G, you can experience a feeling similar to floating with lessened pressure points that help alleviate pain naturally. Additionally, instead of stacking pillows, the ZG adjustable bed position can assist those with health conditions like sleep apnea by helping to keep the airway open for better breathing capability.
The Origin of the ZG Position
Simply described, the Zero-Gravity position replicates the feeling that astronauts experience— weightlessness while floating in space. NASA scientists developed the Zero Gravity position, originally called Neutral Body Posture (NPB), aiming to protect the traveling astronaut's health by safeguarding their spinal column from gravity forces during take-off and touch-down. Today, doctors and scientists still instruct NASA astronauts to rest with an incline to their head and feet to reduce consistent internal pressure or wear and tear on the spine during take-off.
The essence of the origination of Zero Gravity is that the development of the ZG position for adjustable beds stemmed from NASA's research and guidance to maintain good health and protect the spine.
The 3 Best Alternative Positions to Try With an Adjustable Bed
Certain preset and customizable positions furnished by a Bed Tech adjustable bed can help encourage your optimal formula to sleep better—adequate support and good posture for your unique body type, size, and shape. Today's adjustable beds are a durable, advanced, and multi-faceted addition to your bed setup— boosting functionality and comfort. Similarly, adjustable beds encourage an improved ability to relieve your back pain and symptoms of other conditions like acid reflux and sleep apnea. Lounging or sleeping in a slightly elevated position can also be a breakthrough to enhance comfort for side sleepers.
The "Gentle Contour" Position
As a side sleeper, proper posture and a balanced spine are important for a good night's rest. To improve side sleeping comfort, consider being more conscious about which precise positions and side sleeping variations your body is most comfortable in. According to Medical News and Life Sciences— side sleeping is naturally the most comfortable for most people.
To boost that comfort in your go-to sleeping position, reach for an adjustable bed to incline your back and recline your feet just ever so slightly. This position provides gentle contouring that will help support your natural spinal curvature, also known as your most relaxed and natural spinal alignment.
Most people gravitate towards resting on their sides for most of their time sleeping in bed. In most scenarios, by using a BTX5 adjustable bed, you can be more comfortable than before when you were sleeping on a flat mattress surface, despite how comfortable you think the mattress is.
A fact about adjustable beds— after you personalize your position, for side sleepers, the sleep experts advise the gently contoured position— they'll almost always make a comfy mattress even more comfortable! Customizing your position with an adjustable bed can also make a mediocre-feeling mattress much more comforting and cozy! If you're a side sleeper, remember to customize your best side sleeping variation by slightly raising the head and feet of your mattress using your adjustable bed— a gentle contouring position— that supports a neutral, relaxed spine and decreases pressure on the hips and shoulders.
Inclined Upper Body Position
An adjustable bed encourages therapeutic benefits from resting or sleeping on an inclined bed, especially if you need to sleep better or need help managing symptoms like heartburn associated with acid reflux. An adjustable bed boosts the holistic healing process during sleep by preserving your physical comfort and naturally soothing aches and pains without extra medications. Not only does an adjustable bed help you manage pain or discomfort, but using one can promote better digestion, lessen symptoms of sleep apnea, and reduce heartburn by sleeping with your upper body elevated.
Reclined Lower Body Position
Conveniently customized positioning and better sleep are just a couple of reasons why adjustable beds have become noteworthy in today's society. Their popularity has unfolded not only from the advanced technology and sophisticated design but also because modernized adjustable beds can help you boost circulation and alleviate back pain and lower body discomfort, including knee and leg pain. If you're healing from surgery or an injury, elevating your body with a Bed Tech adjustable bed speeds up recovery and helps you become more comfortable, quick, and easy.
When you use your remote control to power an adjustable bed to raise your feet, the base naturally bends under the legs, beneath the knee area— creating a knee bolster. By elevating your legs just slightly above your heart, this position also boosts healthy blood flow and optimizes your relaxation benefits and sleep quality. For those suffering from chronic back pain, be sure to check out adjustable beds with the lumbar enhancement feature. Overall, reclining the lower body while you lounge or sleep can help you naturally manage back pain or discomfort and recover from injuries or surgery more comfortably.
Still, bear in mind that some spinal conditions can worsen in certain positions and require specific body positioning other than inclined (head raised above feet) or reclined (feet raised above hips) to experience relief.
Bed Tech Adjustable Beds Offer Customized Comfort and Healthy Sleep Positions
Undoubtedly, there is a skill to accomplish total body comfort and posture for the best sleep possible. What does that mean for you and your sleep position? The Bed Tech sleep experts understand that there is a science behind your unique formula for comfort and deep sleep each night. Each individual achieves optimal sleep differently, and your needs for support and comfort can also vary from night to night.
Likewise, Bed Tech believes that sleep is just as important, if not more, than our nutrition. After all, humans can live for weeks without food, but how long can we survive without sleep?
Our sleep experts are fond of the phrase '‘You are how you sleep,'’ and each individual's needs to achieve it are unique. An adjustable bed, like the BT2000, can help ensure your bedtime routine helps you prepare for deep sleep and feel rested and rejuvenated when you wake up.
In the past, the assumption has been that adjustable beds only provide advantages for back sleepers. Still, the experts at Bed Tech will clarify that many sleep positions can benefit from an adjustable bed, fulfilling the needs of back and side sleepers alike.
Discover the Best Customized Positions and Sleep Solutions from an Adjustable Bed
Feel free to start by customizing the best position for your body shape to alleviate potential sore areas with an adjustable bed. Complement your new bed base with a Bed Tech mattress, like the Gel Max or Copper Lux Hybrid, to encourage better sleep posture and comfort through pressure point relief and dynamic support.
An adjustable bed can help you add ergonomic support to your one-of-a-kind shape and complete your unique formula to help you recover from sleep debt and increase your time in deep sleep. It's easy to browse through and explore the signature variety of adjustable beds and '’adjustable bed friendly’' mattresses by Bed Tech. Each will help boost the support value of your sleeping surface through personalized positioning and customized comfort. Along with supportive pillows and supple sheets, you can easily create your own sleep system or opt for an expertly selected sleep system bundle by Bed Tech.
Figuring out your best and most comfortable positioning from your adjustable bed, like the BT6500, can help you graduate towards a better quality of life through more satisfactory sleep for many years to come!