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Written by RenoKu
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 16:55 |
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Shopping for a new mattress and wondering if a firm mattress is suitable? Well, this article from CNN (back in 2003) reports that mattress with medium firmness may be best for back pain.
According to CNN:
Doctors have traditionally recommended hard beds for people with lower-back pain, but that advice has been based on scarce evidence. Now the first substantial study has found that people who slept on medium mattresses were twice as likely to report an improvement as people using firm ones.
Nevertheless, the study also mentions that:
...doesn't mean everyone would benefit from a medium mattress, and that trial and error is still the best way to choose.
Click here to read the full article.
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