Lower Back Pain Misconceptions

A thick mattress for helping back troubles is one of the biggest misconceptions. Medium-firmness mattresses help men and women with back issues more regularly than the their firm counterparts, according to a Spanish analysis done in 2003. There was another study completed in 2008 that compared hard mattresses and Talalay latex mattresses and waterbeds. The conclusion was increased back pains and sleepless nights for the men and women who used the firm mattress and not the latex foam mattresses.