We barely pay attention to sleeping
positions and just consider the length and quality of the sleep. You might
don’t know that wrong sleeping positions will reduce our life expectancy.
Lying on one side
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Pros: prevent the stomach and esophagus from
reflux
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Cons: increase face wrinkles
Expert
opinions
Professor Jim Horn, studying about hypnosis
in Loughborough Sleep University (England) said that lying on one side helped
the stomach and esophagus to be decreased reflux effects, stimulate digestion
and prevent hot gut. Lying on one side doesn’t put pressure on the heart, which
suit to people who have diseases of blood vessel, heart and brain.
Professor Dennis Wall, belonging with the
English Dermatologist Association think that lying on one side will put great
pressure on the nose and increase the wrinkles on the corners of the mouth and
eyes.
You
might don’t know that wrong sleeping positions will reduce our life expectancy.
Improving
methods
To people who lying on one side doesn’t
improve their hot gut and bad digestion, they should make pillows higher a
little bit to prevent the stomach and esophagus from reflux. Professor Wall
said that using soft pillows is able to reduce the wrinkles in the face.
Lying on the back
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Pros: bring benefits to arthritis
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Cons: cause snoring, respiratory pause, bring
bad effects on people who have heart and lung diseases.
Lying
on the back can reduce the amount of blood in the circulation, which is really
not good for people who have cardiopulmonary diseases.
Expert opinions
Therapists Sami –Margo said that lying on
the back is suitable to people who have arthritis and joint pain; it’s also
good for male reproductive health but, it causes bad effects on obese people as
it cause respiratory pause during the sleep.
Professor David Ecclestone, Birmingham
hypnosis expert believe that lying on the back can reduce the amount of blood
in the circulation, which is really not good for people who have
cardiopulmonary diseases.
Improving
methods
People who like lying on the back should choose
hard pillows in order to prevent putting too much pressure on the upper
backbone and neck as the activity can cause pain to the shoulders and neck.
Obese people who snore when sleeping should place a pillow under their backs.
Sleeping with the mouth open
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Pros: reduce back pain
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Cons: cause headache and neck strain
Expert
opinions
Sami – Margo thinks that the sleeping
position with an open mouth will help reduce the back pain and pressure on the
spinal disc. However, to do that sleeping position, the pillow position
shouldn’t be too high or low or it will cause headache and neck strain when
waking up.
Improving
methods
Choosing suitable methods the prevent
headache and neck strain. As you use this sleeping position, the backbone and
neck bone need keeping straight; at the same time, you need to nip a pillow
between two knees.
Hugging position
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Pros: reduce pressure
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Cons: cause pains
This
position cause pains to the backbone, neck bone, shoulder joint, hand joint and
muscle.
Expert
opinions
Dr. James Cohan – American neurologist and
psychologist, said that the hugging position could better the conjugal
relationship and reduce psychological pressure. However, this position cause
pains to the backbone, neck bone, shoulder joint, hand joint and muscle.
Improving
methods
The sleeping positions of husbands and
wives don’t need to be similar; they even completely different. Therefore, it
should be based on the practical choices of the stiffness of pillows that
married people remain their certain distance between them and their spouses.
Lying on the abdomen
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Pros: prevent snoring
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Cons: cause gnashing of teeth, pain and hand
numbness
Expert
opinions
Dr. Shinaersen said that that position
helped prevent snoring but caused gnashing of teeth at night.
Dr. Manny said that because the pillows were
too high or low, the position would increase the pressure on the backbone and
neck bone and lead to the risk of compressed nerve, which could create problems
a part of nervous system (often happens to old people).
Improving
methods
Dr. Ecclestone suggested that people who
like lying on their abdomens choose spring mattresses or rubber mattresses –
the hard mattresses that can help protect the backbone. Saami – Margo also said
that those people can put a pillow under their abdomen to reduce the pressure
on the back.
