Tummy, side or back? How you lie down at night can make a big difference in how you feel in the morning.
Back pain
One trick to reducing back pain is to keep your spine in its natural curve. “Lie flat on your back and place a pillow underneath your knees to keep your spine neutral. You may also place a rolled-up towel under the small of your back for added support,” says Dr Partha Pratim Bose, Delhi-based pulmonary, critical care, sleep medicine and rehabilitation specialist and founder of SAANS Foundation.
Hip pain
Whether your hip pain comes from osteoarthritis or overusing a tendon while running, the advice is the same: Lie on your back with a pillow under your knees—twisting to neither the right nor the left— and put less pressure on the hips, says Dr Priyanka Yadav, a sleep medicine specialist at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, USA. “More pressure means more pain, which could keep you from getting a good night’s sleep,” she says.
Knee pain
“A lot of knee pain can be caused by the legs touching each other,” says Dr Charles Bae, a sleep specialist at the Penn Sleep Center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He recommends putting a pillow or something soft between your legs to reduce the contact.
Neck pain
This story is from the April 2018 edition of Reader's Digest India.
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