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- Bead Heineck, physical therapist.
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- Do you sleep on your side?
- Of course.
- Five things you should know.
Do you sleep on your side?
- A little bit.
- Yeah, I sleep on my side a lot.
So these are the things I did know
and I'm now gonna share with you.
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If you suffer from a heartburn,
sleeping on your right side can actually make it worse.
It's the same for any kind of digestive issues like GERD,
we see a lot of that, gastroesophygeal reflux disease.
- And it simply has to do with gravity
and the way your stomach and your food goes through.
- Right. - It pulls it.
- And so you wanna sleep on your left side
if you're having troubles with this.
Sleeping on your side can cause shoulder issues
'cause, especially, if you're sleeping right on the point.
But you can get away from that
and we showed this many times.
All you wanna do is you're gonna take,
oh, let me grab one of these, Brad.
So I do this every night.
I did it last night.
I have a throw pillow right here.
And, if my shoulder is painful, I make the canal here,
the pain-free canal, and now I have stress
putting pressure on my head and my chest,
thoracic area, less on my shoulder.
It just relieves a lot of that stress.
Now let's say this shoulder is really
not giving you any trouble.
Then, in that case, you maybe wanna support,
maybe the shoulder on top is giving you trouble.
- Ah, I've got a patient right now with a shoulder problem,
rotator cuff, and I was just trying to
explain to her how to do this.
- Yeah and you really wanna use two pillows
if you have a painful shoulder
because you want one right here
and you want another right here.
Otherwise, it's gonna be like this all night long
and it's gonna make it almost feel worse,
it's internally rotated.
A lot of people sleep with their arm up like this,
though, if they don't have the pillows.
So, all right, that's the number two thing.
Number three: neck pain.
When you're sleeping on your side,
the goal is always to keep the head in the middle.
You don't want it like this and you don't want it like this.
So, if you have a soft pillow,
like this kind of down-ish regular-filled pillow here
and you sleep on your side,
even if you have a couple of them, look at this.
- His head's falling into the black hole there.
- Like I've heard him say before:
if you're gonna use a down pillow,
your head's gonna go down.
But my wife actually likes a down pillow 'cause she...
- [Brad] She can form it up. - Yep, she forms it up.
We're gonna show you another option here: memory foam.
The problem with memory foam,
and Brad's got one right here,
is they can go down also
and kind of form a cavity in it.
But they tend to be warm.
There's no way to dissipate the heat.
- Sure, and if you like a memory foam,
it works good, that's fine,
but we're just letting you know all the pros and cons here.
- And that's the thing we're gonna mention right out:
pillows are a very personal thing.
But, in your research, we're gonna mention a pillow
that you may wanna take a look at
because it's brand-new and we're excited about it.
I think it's a home run.
So Sleep Ovation, the mattress company that we really like,
we've been asking them for a pillow for years,
and they finally, I don't think they listened to us,
they just finally get it.
- Well, I think they were doing
a little research and development,
that you can't do that overnight.
- They took a long time to put this together
and they actually made a pillow with springs in it.
- So it's very similar to their mattress
and they just miniaturized it into a pillow shape.
- And plus, it's got the miniature little pillows there.
I think they got 77.
- [Brad] Yeah, versus 700.
- [Bob] Right, they like that number seven just like you.
- [Brad] Yeah, well, seven is complete, Bob.
You can't go wrong with the number seven.
- [Bob] First thing we're gonna mention here:
you are not gonna feel these springs.
You're gonna say, there's not any springs in there.
- [Brad] Right, as a matter of fact,
I'd have to take it apart and get my fingers
and they're feeling them.
- [Bob] Well, you wanna show.
Take it up to the camera a little bit there.
- [Brad] Can you see that, Liz?
You wanna focus on my face?
This is my good side.
That would scare everyone away.
So here we have the individual squares.
- [Bob] How are you doing with that, Liz?
- [Brad] And then, if you open that up, there it is.
Oops, I'm sorry.
- [Bob] And you will not feel those springs.
But they do what they're supposed to do.
They give support and--
- [Brad] They allow airflow through the middle
of the pillow as well.
- Yeah, very good point, Brad.
I think this is gonna be one of your cooler pillows
besides being cool,
because it's gonna allow more airflow into it.
Brad and I both have been using them
and I think we were both relieved that we really like them.
And I did the same thing with these
as I had done with my mattress,
so we own a cabin and, this weekend,
I was using a different pillow again.
And I thought this was a great pillow,
but once you go away from it and then come back again,
then you realize how good it really is.
It's like I didn't sleep as well
on my old pillow at the cabin.
So, again, we don't wanna even,
I hate to even recommend pillows
because they're so personal to people.
But if you wanna check it out below,
they are gonna offer a discount to Bob and Brad viewers
and so we'll put a link below.
We'll mention it in the future too
'cause there's some other things
I wanna show about it.
But it's the darndest things.
They made a pillow with springs in it.
- Yeah, I couldn't believe it. - But it's really cool.
All right, number four.
When you're sleeping on your side
and let's say you're having some back issues,
or maybe you're not even having back issues
but you don't wanna have back issues,
when I sleep on my side here, the back sags a little bit.
You know, it's not straight.
And so you could take a towel,
especially if you're having back pain,
like just a roll of towel like this,
and put it right there, and it'll give
some support down to my back.
It's running straight instead of a slight curve down.
- As a matter of fact, that's exactly why
I don't sleep on my sides very long
because I have spondylolisthesis.
My back is a little hypersensitive to being out of neutral.
And I can lay on my side for 10, maybe 15 minutes,
then I go to my back and I feel much better.
So, as opposed to using this,
I'm more of a back sleeper anyway, so--
- And you could roll a sheet around you
or roll a towel so that you wouldn't have to worry
about placing this.
And now it's in place no matter what side he sleeps on,
and you can pit it in place or tie it in place,
whatever you wanna do.
- They do make, actually, they call them
Sleep rolls. - Sleep rolls.
McKenzie does that wraparound and then you have that.
They're not that expensive.
They're $30 or $40, I believe.
- The other thing is: if your legs are like this
and you're in the fetal position here,
the leg is coming down and it's actually
putting a little bit of twist on the back,
so to avoid that, you can put a pillow between your legs.
And, to be honest with you, Brad,
I tried a pillow, it's just so hot.
So I actually get one of the little wedges
that you could buy and put it underneath.
- Oh, so it's not such a big--
- Such a big thing.
- Yeah, a knee wedge or--
- Well, I don't know what they call them,
but abductor wedge or something like that.
- Yeah, there you go.
- All right, number five.
Sleeping on your side actually is probably better for you
if you have snoring or sleep apnea.
Obviously, a lot of people, I think, know that already.
I mean, how often have you heard your spouse snoring?
And I know she's done it to me.
If I was snoring, then she'd push me--
- A pillow over your face?
- Puts a pillow over my face,
she puts a Sleep Ovation pillow over my face,
and I can still breathe 'cause there's air coming through.
(chuckles) If she would've used the memory foam,
I would've been gone.
But no, it's gonna be better
if you're sleeping on your side,
so that's a positive for sleeping on your side.
So you wanna avoid that.
- Oh, one thing I did wanna, it really surprised me,
is these pillows with the springs that you can't feel it,
they fold up perfectly,
and that's why I couldn't believe
you really cannot feel those springs,
which is really amazing to me.
- See, you have to believe that they're in there,
but yeah, you can fold this up like a regular pillow
and double it up on your side if you want, so all right.
Give her a try, so--
- Good luck with your pillows. - Thanks.