How to sleep for lower back pain. Best sleeping position for lower back pain.

 Best sleeping position

 

   Sleeping with lower back pain can be quite challenging. many positions that we choose to sleep in often put a lot of pressure on our back. so if you're dealing with a back injury and it's an inflamed low back that those positions may aggravate it. and prolong your injury. so what we're going to go through are some tips and some strategies that you can utilize to help ease the tension out of the back.

   Sit on the edge of the bed and try to maintain a neutral spine position

 

So you can get a more restful night's sleep so setting up a good night's sleep begins when you first get into bed. so what you want to first do is you want to sit on the edge of the bed so now the whole goal with getting into the sleeping position and sleeping at night is we want to try to maintain a neutral spine position. this just helps take some pressure out of the painful joints or the discs muscles. whatever it is that's causing your injury that we want to keep the position as neutral as possible.

   So it starts in a seated position and works your way down to a laying down position. that you want to move the spine as one unit to get into the laying down position. so what that looks like is you want to sit up nice and tall give yourself a general brace around your abdomen to help, support your back and what you're going to start doing is tilting your body from your hips. all the way through the neck towards the mattress and you're going to start catching yourself with your hands. so then you're going to walk yourself down and as you're walking yourself down.

 Start elevating your legs onto the mattress

start elevating your legs onto the mattress and supporting your upper body with your forearms and elbows until you're into a side position so now if you are a side sleeper or this is a comfortable position for you when you're dealing with your lower back pain.

Placing a pillow between your knees and legs

 Placing a bolster or a pillow between your knees and your ankles. So what this is? This will do if it keeps your legs in proper alignment through your hips and so it keeps a little bit more regular muscle tension around the hips. it also keeps your pelvis nice and straight. there isn't any twist so if the bolster wasn't there the knees come together and they're just very there's this very subtle rotation and stretch through the tissues, pelvis and that can cause back pain, or if you don't feel it right away after several hours of sleeping it might just cause enough strain to then exacerbate that back condition so this is a good place to start.

Placing a pillow underneath your abdomen

  Place a pillow underneath your abdomen and the front of your pelvis and that will lift up the lower back. decompress the back takes some pressure off of those tissues and that can be a more pain-relieving position to stay in. if you are a stomach sleeper now final piece. so when you hopefully get a good night's sleep and then you're waking up in the morning you want to do the exact same thing you did when you got down into the position to sleep. so you want to you know you wake up scoot to the side of the bed so it will give you a good position to get out of the bed. when you get up you're going to try to keep your back in one position. Many people try to do all these tips and tricks and relieve lower back pain.