Do memory foam mattress topper pads really work?
We’ve looked at alot of bedding materials, from latex to cotton to wool. And there is just nothing like memory foam and the way it conforms to your body and reduces pressure points. That isn’t to say that you would want a whole mattress made just of memory foam. Memory foam is just too soft a material and isn’t meant to be supportive. So it works best when layered over a firm, supportive material. That is why you will mainly find memory foam as a 2″ or 3″ topper to be used on your existing, firm mattress or as a 2″ or 3″ topping layer in a new mattress. There are a couple of reasons that memory foam is so unique. One is the way memory foam cells deform when under a load. Unlike standard foams that compress, but want to spring back to their original shape immediately, memory foam cells compress fully and spread their air pressure to adjoining cells. This is because memory foam is an open cell foam, which means the cells of foam have holes in them. This also accounts for the way that mem
I’ve looked and tried a lot of pads, from conventional eggcrate to latex, and in my experience memory foam mattress topper pads are the most comfortable pads of all and offer pressure relief that no other material can approach. My customer experience supports this; we only have about 4 – 5% returns, a very low rate for a product sold directly over the internet. Why do people return it? I’d say the vast majority are from people who had specific pain issues that the pad didn’t help with. The most common type of pain person we see is back pain people, and I’d guess that topper works for 80% or so of these people. The causes for back pain are just so numerous that the pad will work for some and not others. The memory foam mattress topper pads work more routinely for other chronic pain people in our experience – I’ve had a lot of luck with people with arthritis and fibromyalgia. And for the more ordinary person who just wakes up with aches and pains, the memory toppers work very well to mak
