Friday, January 31, 2014

Sleeping Positions & Their Effects on Health

What position do we sleep most often? It turns out that this is a very important question. Getting enough sleep is the most important thing – but we know that the way we sleep can also affect our health?

Sleeping on our back, arms at our side, is generally considered the best position to sleep on the health of the spine, and that’s good for the neck, too, as long as we do not use too many pillows. However, as a rule back sleepers snore more than in any other position, and sleep apnea is strongly associated with sleep on their backs.

Let’s take a look at Eight Common Sleep Positions and what they do to our body.