The harm of sleeping on a hard bed for a long time. In real life, many people choose soft mattresses when choosing mattresses, but there are also many people who like to sleep in hard beds. This is a bad habit. Let's take a look at the harm of sleeping on a hard bed for a long time.
Harm of long-term sleeping on a hard bed 1 Sleeping on a hard bed is not healthy, because the hard bed surface can't meet the needs of human body curve, which will bring serious burden to muscles and spine and cause various injuries. Sleep should be able to relax the lower part of the spine, so the ideal mattress should be a mattress with moderate hardness to meet the needs of human curves.
Lumbago is a very common clinical symptom. Almost everyone has experienced low back pain. Many friends who see a doctor because of "backache" have heard the doctor's advice to "go home and sleep on a hard bed". We invite experts from the massage department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine to talk to you about how to choose a good hard bed to avoid hurting your waist because you didn't choose the right bed.
Hard bed ≠ Hard bed, smooth bed
Many people have a misunderstanding that hard bed refers to hard bed and smooth bed. In fact, the hard bed mentioned by doctors is relative to the soft bed used by Europeans and Americans. A hard bed does not mean a hard bed, let alone a smooth bed. It must be covered with many mattresses.
Then how to grasp the hardness of the hard bed? Experts pointed out that when choosing a mattress, we should remember a principle: the mattress should not be too hard to deform or too soft to deform. When choosing a mattress, you may wish to follow the principle of 3∶ 1 For a mattress with a thickness of 3 cm, 1 cm is appropriate. The same is true for mattresses with a thickness of 10 cm, with a slight depression of 3 cm, and so on.
Lie flat and measure the degree of fit by hand.
Zhao Jiayou, a doctor from the Massage Department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, added that a suitable mattress can keep the spine naturally stretched and completely fit the shoulders, waist and buttocks without leaving any gaps.
Lie flat on the mattress with your hands bent from neck, waist, buttocks to thighs to see if there are any gaps; Turn to one side again and try to see if there is a gap between the concave part of the body curve and the mattress in the same way. If the hand can be easily inserted into the gap, it means that the bed is too hard.
If the palm is close to the gap, it proves that this mattress is very consistent with the natural curves of neck, back, waist, buttocks and legs when people sleep. The bigger the mattress, the thicker the better, but this is related to its supporting force, especially the spring mattress. If the length of the spring is constant and the bottom pad is thickened, it will not get good supporting force.
The ideal thickness of spring mattress is 12 ~ 18 cm. When the spring is deformed due to quality problems, it will affect the supporting force and should be replaced in time.
Harm of sleeping on a hard bed for a long time 2 For thin people, the skin will be damaged. Moreover, the hard bed does not fully meet the needs of the human body curve, which will bring burden to the muscles and spine and affect the quality of sleep. You may get backache after getting up. In fact, it is best to lay a mattress on the hard bed, not too thin, and keep the thickness of the human body and the bed board 3 to 5 cm.
What are the advantages of sleeping on a hard bed?
Hard bed can rest latissimus dorsi and bear a good load, so hard bed is more suitable than soft bed for people who are prone to backache. Personally, I think fat people should sleep on a hard bed, because too much rest will sink into a soft bed and bend their spine. Generally, developing children should also sleep on a hard bed to avoid hunchback during development. People with waist injuries had better sleep on a hard bed covered with a sponge pad. Usually do more back muscle training to improve the compressive strength of waist muscles.
How hard and soft should the mattress be?
1, and the ratio of hardness to softness is 3: 1
This ratio means that if the thickness of the mattress is 3cm, it will collapse 1cm, so the hardness of this mattress is moderate. The choice of mattress should not be too hard and deformed, nor too soft and completely collapsed.
2. Suitable for testing
Here, take a normal adult as an example, lying on the mattress, and another person's hand extends horizontally to the neck, waist, buttocks and thighs to see if there is any gap; Turn to one side again and try to see if there is a gap between the concave part of the body curve and the mattress in the same way. If there is no gap, it proves that the mattress is closely consistent with the natural curves of the neck, back, waist, buttocks and legs when people sleep, so the mattress is moderate in hardness.
3. Selection of special population
Special people have special requirements for mattresses, such as the elderly and children from several years old to teenagers. Choosing a mattress with moderate hardness is good for the bones of the elderly and children. Don't choose a mattress that is too soft. Sleeping on a soft mattress for a long time can easily lead to waist and neck diseases, while children and adolescents will be stunted and cause hunchback and other symptoms. Also, pregnant women should take their weight as a reference when choosing mattresses. Overweight pregnant women should choose a hard mattress, on the contrary, you can choose a mattress with moderate hardness, not too soft.
Harm of long-term sleeping on a hard bed 3 Some people think that sleeping on a hard bed is helpful to the recovery of patients with lumbar disc herniation and can also prevent skeletal diseases such as hunchback and scoliosis, but this situation is not applicable to all cases. Sleeping on a hard bed for a long time may do some harm to the skin and spinal muscles of the body. It is suggested that patients carefully choose hard bed:
1, skin: Because the hard bed is hard, sleeping on the hard bed for a long time may cause some pressure on the skin, which will not only cause pain, but also cause skin damage, bedsore and other problems. In particular, patients with thin figure are more prone to skin pain and injury because of less sebum. Patients who stay in bed for a long time are not recommended to choose a hard bed, which is easy to induce bedsores.
2. Spinal muscles: Because the hard bed does not conform to the curve of the human body, sleeping on the hard bed for a long time may cause a certain burden on the muscles and spine, leading to lumbar muscle strain and back pain, especially for people with osteoporosis and spinal deformation. Choosing a hard bed may aggravate the condition.
Therefore, it is suggested to choose bedding that suits you as much as possible, such as moderate hardness, comfortable material and comfortable sleeping environment, such as avoiding strong light sources and appropriate temperature and humidity.
Bedding should choose products suitable for keeping the spine upright and helping to maintain physiological curvature, which will help to achieve better sleep quality and reduce the adverse effects of poor sleep quality on the body.
Harm of long-term sleeping on a hard bed 4 Many people think that sleeping on a hard bed is better than sleeping on a soft bed, especially for the spine. Actually, it's not like this. Sleeping on a hard bed is not good for your health, because the hard bed surface can't meet the needs of human body curve, which will bring serious burden to muscles and spine and cause various injuries. Sleep should be able to relax the lower part of the spine, so the ideal mattress should be a mattress with moderate hardness to meet the needs of human curves.
Don't be too hard, too hard makes people uncomfortable, and it's best to lay it 1CM thick. A hard bed will keep people's lumbar joints from deforming. Of course, other joints also have this effect, but the lumbar spine is the most obvious.
Hard bed Hard bed can prevent the spine from bending, support the lumbar spine, and relax and recover the waist muscles at night, so it is usually recommended to sleep hard bed. But when you sleep, you won't feel as good as soft cotton. The soft bed increases the contact area between the body part and the bed surface, and the extrusion area also increases, which affects the blood circulation on the body surface.
Although the muscles above the body can be relaxed, the muscles below are compressed, and people with lumbar muscle strain, hyperosteogeny and cervical spondylosis will aggravate the symptoms. But the advantage is that water tastes comfortable. Soft bed feels better and more comfortable than hard bed, but hard bed is better in theory.
Many people think that people who sleep on a hard bed for the first time will feel uncomfortable, which is the disadvantage of sleeping on a hard bed. Although people with poor foundation can sleep on the hard bed to keep their spine straight, sleeping on the hard bed for a long time will also do great harm to the waist, especially for the head and body without curve feeling and muscle strain.