- Today we're going to show you seven,
- Seven!
- Seven tricks to make your old mattress
way more comfortable.
All right, let's go with the number one problem
that a lot of mattresses have as they get older,
they get saggy.
- Yeah. You kind of get that, yeah the big dent in there,
and that causes poor posture, back problems,
poor night's sleep,
- Yeah, if you're hunched all night long
in that little hole.
I've had mattresses like this, so I know.
- Yes, yes, yes.
- So the, should we first talk about using a board?
- Sure, absolutely, Bob.
This is what both of us have recommended to patients
that, they've got the hole in their mattress,
they can't afford a new one.
And this is a good option.
- And I, I'm, this is one I did, years ago,
first mattress.
(laughter)
- We don't want to talk about - Shut up
- So, you take a piece of plywood,
typically about like this,
- I doesn't need to be that big
- Right, it depends, if it's for two people,
but if it's just for one person,
it's going to be right about at your waistline
and that's going to offer some support in that area.
- [Bob] It'll push the mattress up, right?
So find the spot, hit that spot,
and it should correct it.
- We've got another option too, that's related to this.
- Right, a lot, lot easier.
Lot cheaper.
- Actually, you could double it up if you wanted to
- Yeah, you could do both.
- You take a pillow
- Take a pillow, old pillow.
- [Brad] Yep. Find the spot.
- Yep. Now you're going to look at this
and you're going to see, this actually makes it bow.
So it was bowing the other way, it's going to reverse it.
It's gonna take it, make it flat.
- And if it didn't do enough,
you could put the piece of plywood in there
and the pillow.
And, you know, the size of the pillow may vary.
- Right, you might need a thinner one
or a thicker one.
- Exactly.
- Very simple, voila.
- Yeah. No cost.
- Right. Okay.
Next thing, let's say,
I'm going to grab the spine actually, Brad.
- Yeah, go ahead. It's over, it's over there, Bob.
- [Bob] Yeah, thanks.
When you're sleeping in bed here.
If you have, let's let's do this, Brad.
- [Brad] Yeah.
- [Bob] If you have actually a larger buttock,
- [Brad] Yes.
- [Bob] And you're sleeping on your back like this,
what you're going to happen,
is your back is going to sag, 'cause your butt,
your butt muscles are holding your spine up in the air.
- [Brad] Yeah. It could be more than muscle.
Anyway, 'cause normally you want to have a reverse arch
and that's, that's a healthy back,
but this is going to actually reverse the arch.
- [Bob] It's almost like you got a saggy mattress.
- [Brad] Yeah, exactly.
- [Bob] Also, Brad. - [Brad] Oh, put it back.
- [Bob] If you're on the side, it could cause the matt,
the spine to sag that way, too.
- [Brad] Right. And then they get that lateral curve,
which is not comfortable.
- So, what we recommend actually is,
to take, you got that, don't you?
- [Brad] Oh yeah, we talking about the,
- Yeah. Just take a sheet,
and you're going to tie it around your waist,
- Yeah, roll it up, and we got some tape on here,
you can use rubber bands so it doesn't fall apart.
- And that's going to fill in that gap
that we were just showing you.
And, now when you lie on your back,
- So it goes above the belt line
into that hollow spot.
Wrap it around twice, and you know pin it here.
And am I going to get up there, Bob?
- You want to do it?
- Ooh. Yes, I do, Bob.
- [Bob] Are we ready?
- [Brad] Yeah, but I'm going to be safe, Bob.
- [Bob] All right.
- [Brad] Normally we don't have mattresses this high
so I'm going to step up here.
- In his younger days, he would, there we go.
- Okay.
- As you look now, that's going to fill in the gap here.
That's going to be very comfortable for most people.
- [Brad] Yeah. You can feel that support
on your lumbar spine, I can right now.
- [Bob] Now, if you want to roll onto your side, Brad?
Same thing.
It's just going to make that a lot more comfortable.
It's not going to sag down.
It's going to give support to the back the entire night.
So, while you're on the side of your Brad, too,
let's skip to this one.
- [Brad] Oh yeah.
- [Bob] With your legs off to the side, like this,
you're actually going to cause the back to twist,
especially if you put one leg forward like this.
- Especially if it goes off the edge of the bed.
- Right. So it's always going to be a lot more comfortable
on the hip and the back,
if you have a pillow between the legs.
- And between the knees as well.
- Right, right. - It just feels good.
- [Bob] And the ankles, if you want to go all the way down.
- Sure.
- So, I do this every night.
I have a little pillow just for this.
- You do. Oh, you got a custom one, right?
- Yeah. Kind of a custom, - Made for that.
- Yeah, right.
- But you don't need that, you could just, you know,
take one from your kids,
- These get a little hot sometimes.
- Yeah.
- In the summer.
- Right, yeah.
My wife always gets mad when I wake up,
and I got her pillows, whatever.
- They're always mad for some reason.
All right, next one is more for the shoulder, Brad.
we're going to go ahead and put,
- [Brad] Are we going to show the canal?
- [Bob] Yeah. - [Brad] Oh good.
Usually you get to do this one.
- [Bob] Now you can, you actually can buy a device.
- Yeah. It's called a, a lumbar roll, or (indistinct)
- What's the name?
- Night roll - Night roll, yes.
- And then it's nice, cushy, soft form.
And then these strings are here.
Not strings, but they have tails,
- [Bob] Ties.
- Ties, tails, and that goes around,
this one's actually a little short for me,
you go by the girth of your waist,
and make sure you're ordering the right one.
- I never looked to see how big they go or,
- Oh, they go, - Do they?
- This is a short one. - Oh, okay.
- They're quite a bit longer than this.
- Gotcha. All right. So now let's say
you're having a shoulder problem,
but yet you like to sleep on that shoulder?
- Yes I do.
- So let's say, go and lie down once, Brad,
so we can see what happens.
- I do like to sleep on my side,
although it's not good for my back.
- So he's putting pressure directly on that point
of the shoulder and that's,
if you have a bad shoulder, it's going to be a hard night.
It's going to be a long night.
- Plus when you get up in the morning,
you got a sore shoulder.
- [Bob] So, a lot of people that,
I don't know if you have dealt with pillows, Brad,
- Yeah, oh, well, yeah. - Double up your pillow.
- I don't sleep on my side long enough to worry about it.
But that's another video.
- So what you want to do is,
we're going to create the canal here.
We take a throw pillow and we create a canal here.
And now you're going to take pressure on your head and on
your thorax, or your chest,
and you're going to hit your microphone,
but this, this takes pressure off the shoulder.
I do this every night.
I sleep on my side for probably half the night.
- You do?
- [Bob] Yes.
- So you got to, you got your pillow between the knees,
you got one here, you got,
- Yeah, I'm all set.
- You got stock in pillow world.
- Pillow world, yes. All right.
Very simple solution, but it works really quite well.
- Especially if you've got an injured shoulder,
and it's only going to be sore for a couple of weeks
and has, it's a good, well, Bob does all the time though,
so I guess anyone can.
- If you have a really bad shoulder, too,
and you listen to us, and you don't sleep on it,
Go back down, Brad.
- Yeah, okay.
- So this is the sore shoulder now.
So, in this case you'd actually take a pillow, or two,
and actually, I'm going to grab this one,
- [Brad] Now in this case, though, Bob,
you don't need these, this one under your ribcage,
- [Bob] No, you don't.
- So let's get the throw,
noticed I threw the throw pillow.
- You were was just waiting to use that line.
- [Brad] Now, I'm amazed at much difference this makes,
if this is a sore shoulder, if you sleep like this, versus,
- I think it makes a big difference to add two pillows.
- That's what I'm thinking. Give me the second one.
- Now the first one can even be out a little bit,
like that. A second one can be out.
- Yeah, it's just incredible how much it,
- It keeps the shoulder level.
It's not abducting at all, it's not crossing over like this.
- Tanner, am I making all kinds of mic noises?
(Tanner replies, indistinctly)
I apologize.
So, there we go.
- You should apologize.
All right, so that's just another idea. Okay.
How about sleeping on your back, Brad?
Where's our leg wedge?
- Oh, yeah.
- [Bob] Now this is the only time where we're, you know,
besides the, the back roll, you could make a purchase here,
is the leg wedge.
And you're a good one to talk about this, Brad,
because you use this quite often.
- My back has been better in general
over the last half year, so not as much.
But like right now, this feels incredibly,
just a difference in this wedge.
I don't know what these, these are about 25, 30, dollars,
but you don't have to get one.
You can put pillows.
- They don't work as well.
- It doesn't work as well, but it, it helps,
because, like when I'm on my couch,
when I go to sleep on the couch,
this doesn't fit so well on the couch.
- Why're you sleeping on the couch?
- Well, Bob, that's a personal,
I don't want to get into it.
- He's banned to the couch
- But one way or another,
it is amazing when you lift the legs,
the wedge helps more than the pillows.
- It's really comfortable.
If you have swelling too, by the way,
I think this is a great way to try to combat that.
Especially if you can do some of your ankle pumps
while you're in that position.
- Yeah, we're going to do that,
- We're going to do a video on it.
- And leg swelling and, whatever.
But that's, that's another video.
- Last one, Brad, I think,
yeah, we're in the last one.
We take the throw pillow back, throw it to you.
- Oh yeah. Throw it to me, Bob.
- And this is for,
if you tend to have kind of a hump on your mid back
or upper back, this helps correct that.
There we go.
See how it brings his chest up a little bit.
- For breathing too, it opens up the chest.
- [Bob] Yes, exactly.
- You probably will need a thicker pillow.
- Yes, you do.
- Or two of them.
- What I do is actually, like at our cabin,
I have a pillow and I have a towel underneath it.
It's, two, two pillows is too much,
but a folded towel works out just right.
- You're pretty complicated in your sleeping habits.
- I really pay close attention to my sleeping habits,
- I noticed that, Bob.
- But this pillow here, I actually do this.
And then when I lay on my side, I make my canal with it.
- Oh, sure.
- So it serves two purposes.
- Can you do all that without waking up?
- No, I kind of wake up,
but I fall back asleep within two seconds.
I'm a fast sleeper.
- I just wonder if you did it so many times
you can do it in your sleep.
(laughter)
- Maybe I do, I don't know.
- It's killing me.
Here, throw that pillow. - All right.