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Leilnahari et al. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011, 10:103 /content/10/1/103 RESEARCH Open Access Spine alignment in men during lateral sleep position: experimental study and modeling 1* 2 1 1 1 Karim Leilnahari , Nasser Fatouraee , Mahmoud Khodalotfi , Mohammad Amin Sadeghein and Yekta Amin Kashani * Correspondence: k. Abstract leilnahari@srbiau.ac.ir 1Department of Biomedical Background: A proper sleep system can affect the spine support in neutral position. Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Most of the previous studies in scientific literature have focused on the effects of Tehran, Iran customary mattresses on the spinal alignment. To keep the spine in optimal alignment, Full list of author information is one can use sleep surfaces with different zonal elasticity, the so called custom-made available at the end of the article arrangements. The required stiffness of a sleep surface for each individual can be obtained by changing this arrangement applying the experimental method and modeling. Methods: In experimental part, the coordinate positions of the markers mounted on the spinous processes of the vertebrae of 25 male volunteers were registered in frontal plane through the optical tracking method and so the spinal alignment was obtained in lateral sleep position on soft and firm surfaces and on the best custom-