What is the best mattress for back pain?
Patients have asked me this question a thousand times over the years and my answer is based on my own experience. With five kids in my family and five kids in my wifes family growing up, both of us slept on pretty old mattresses. I remember putting a piece of plywood under many of my mattresses over the years, which helped quite a bit in preventing the bed from sagging. When youre young and healthy it seems like you can get away with sleeping on a poor quality mattress without doing yourself much harm. But unfortunately that is not the case. Sleeping on a good quality mattress is one of the most important things you can do for your own health and the health of your family. When my wife and I first got married we slept on a Flex Steel pull out couch. This couch had remarkably good support for a pullout. However we needed to use this pullout as a couch, and making and unmaking it all the time became a hassle, so we decided to buy our first king sized bed. We looked around at quite a few
