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Chapter 8: Keeping Straight Through the Night Consider sleeping as eight hours of therapy a day. Not only The benefits of waterbeds are questionable. Even if they does this provide your body with much needed rest, it also are tightly filled, they probably do not provide sufficient can help enhance good posture. Check your posture regu- support at the crucial areas (they sag where we bulge) and larly. If you have no symptoms or posture problems, you they may be difficult to get out of and to maintain. On the need not make changes in the way you sleep. If you are other hand, they can keep you warm and provide a degree uncomfortable, there are options to consider. We will look of comfort. more closely at your choices for mattresses and pillows, review positioning, and see how medications can all serve If your back is rigid or you are in spasm, side rails on the to make these eight hours worthwhile. bed can help you pull over to the side of the bed or to get up. These are available at medical supply stores. A “Posey” Mattresses ladder is made of canvas rungs and attaches to the foot of the bed to provide you a means of pulling yourself up. Although you cannot completely control your posture while sleeping, you can get started in a straight position on Pillows a firm mattress with no pillow under your knees or head. Since pain may seem more severe at night, you need a good Usually, there is very little distance between the back of foundation to decrease discomfort. Your mattress should the neck and the bed. That is the space that a pillow should be firm and definitely not sag, bu