
Sleeping in an embarrassing position for long hours at night can cause morning pain and pain. Medical experts say that one of the ways of protection against them is to focus on your sleep mode, as medical experts say.
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Have you ever woke up with the shoulders of the lower or painful back that destroys the rest of your day? Or wake up from the bed and try to revive the morning, just to find your neck very harsh so that it cannot turn into the window?
Morning muscle pain is often due to the spine as a result of hours of inappropriate support during sleep, he says Ellen and WrameterPractice nurse running Sleeping medicineSleeping clinic in Virginia. Medical experts say that one of the easy ways to protect it is to focus on your sleep.

Wrameter says that sleeping in an embarrassing position tends to create gaps between your body, your pillow or your bed. “You will want your soft tissue to decrease in these gaps, and the muscles expand to make up for this” in order to protect from a possible injury.
Throughout the night, muscle tension can cause this inflammation and pain, as he says, and a bad sleep of all this ejaculation and transformation to find a more comfortable situation.
Whether you sleep on your back, side or stomach, experts share advice for those looking to reduce morning and pain pain.
She sleeps in the same way you stand
When you sleep the way you stand, it reduces the possibility of muscle strain, he says Ellen and WrameterPractice nurse running Sleeping medicineSleeping clinic in Virginia. This clarification provides instructions on how to sleep in a position that follows the natural curvature of the spine.
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The best defense against the neck or back Winter says in the morning is to sleep just as you stand. When you sleep in a position that follows the natural curvature of the spine, it reduces the possibility of muscle strain.
While lying, your body should form a straight line from the top of your head to the bone of the tail. It suggests and throws a situation Your ears on your shoulders and shoulders on the hips. a point Your chin directly forward, not tucked in your chest or extended towards the sky. It aims to symmetry with your arms for appropriate trading.

If you are sleeping in the back, this advice will be easier to follow. But if you are aside or asleep in the stomach, you may need to set your sleep space to achieve the spine better – or even train yourself to sleep in this position.
Avoid sleeping on your stomach
While this position can open the airline of the troubled beams, it is often associated with the aspects of potential negatives. This includes neck, back, shoulder pain, fragmented from switching sites often overnight.
When you sleep on your stomach, it is easy to outperform your neck, she says. Creating a breathing room often leads to removing your neck from aligning the perfect spine.
The height of the pillow, or the upper floor, is important to maintain a suitable sleep mode and prevent neck pain. The left column The height of an inappropriate pillow appears to sleep in the back, side sleep and sleeping in the stomach, respectively. The right column It shows the high pillow of the neutral spine for each sleeping position.
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Choose the correct pillow for your head
It is important to rest your head on something that supports the spine and enhances the maximum rest at night, he says Dr. Fabian MoralesSports Medicine.
Sleeping back: Morales suggest a medium acute acute pillow and upper sessions, or something with a comfortable design. He says: “The good bone pillow designed to support the curvature of the neck can reduce the risk of neck pain below the line. It reduces the pressure on the neck and supports alignment.”
Side sleeping people: “To find a pillow with the right upper floor of the side sleep,” measure your neck curve to the edge of your shoulder. ” The ideal pillow will support your head without pushing your head and neck up.

Sleeping in the stomach: If you are stuck in the stomach sleep, Wermit says it may be better to go without pillow to avoid additional stress on your neck. If you need some pillows, aim from low options to keep your spine alignment.
Morales says that replacing your pillows every few years or as soon as you notice that your pillow begins to decrease support. The pillows hold dirt and dust – and lose their structure over time, which may lead to pain and pain.
Support any gaps with smaller cushions
The pillows can be used to support the appropriate sleep mode for back sleep, side sleep and sleeping in the stomach.
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Wrameter says that when your spine is not properly supported, it is likely to follow the pain. For this reason it is important to align and the length of the full spine – not only your head and neck – to make up for any gaps between your body and bed. Use smaller pillows, even blankets or towels.
Sleeping back: Be familiar with any gaps in your background or under your knees, which can be a source of lower back pain. Add support to these areas as needed, says Wirem.
Side sleeping people: She says that many of the two sides like to place a small pillow between the knees or embrace the body pillow to align the hips and reduce pressure in the hips and the lower back.
Sleeping in the stomach: Wrameter says that just sleeping on a good flat surface for sleep in the stomach, but some may find that a thin pillow under the hips and stomach can reduce pressure on the back.
Choose a mattress that is not very soft and not very strong
Wrameter says that evaluating your ranks and replacing your bed every seven years at most. If the mattress is very soft, the heavier parts of your body can drown and the spine is likely to come out of the alignment. If the ranking is very strong, it can create those gaps that stimulate pain between the body and the bed.
Try other treatments to relieve pain
What should you do if you have a great sleep setting and still wake up with a painful back or Crick in your neck?
It is a very common experience, especially as we have a lifetime and our column in corrosion more than wear. Dr. Charla Fischer, and Nyu Langone Health surgeon.
This type of muscle pain, well, can be pain in the neck – but usually does not cause extreme anxiety. Consult a medical specialist if you have fixed pain for a week or more; Experience of numbness, tingling, weakness in the neck, arms, or hands; Or if you only have fears, Fisher says.
Otherwise, do not forget the strength of the basic treatments to relieve pain. Take Anti -inflammatory drugs without prescriptionMassage the area, do a nice extensions, put ice beams or heating in seizures from 20 to 30 minutes on your body.
Don’t reduce the power of hot shower, she says. “It can come a long way to calm these unlawful muscles.”
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