Dont Let Your Pillow Be a Pain in Your Neck!

Consult your chiropractor about the best pillow for your neck.Fluffy pillows. Foam pillows. Feather pillows. Ahhh. The relaxation…or not.

Is your pillow a pain in the neck?
 
Have you ever woken with neck pain and conjectured that your pillow could be the offender, inducing or contributing to your neck pain? Without a doubt, your chiropractor at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is mindful of this possibility and is ready to talk about this substantial issue with you. And if you have neck pain due to pillow-related or other causes of neck pain, your Groton chiropractor at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is here to help!
Now, your Groton chiropractor understands that poor pillow choice causes poor sleep quality, low pillow comfort, and waking symptoms like neck pain. In one pillow-pain study, 106 volunteers analyzed their own pillows to five trial pillows. For one week on each pillow, the pillow study participants recorded...
  • any painful areas before going to sleep and any waking symptoms
  • sleep-quality
  • pillow-comfort ratings

 The pillow-pain study results are that

  • 42.5% reported no waking symptoms with their own pillows.
  • With their own pillows, 50% reported regular waking symptoms, failure to relieve pre-sleeping symptoms, uncomfortable pillows, and/or poor-quality sleep.
  • 100% of those who reported poor sleep quality also reported poor pillow comfort.
  • Pillow-comfort reports were not related to any waking symptom report.
  • Poor sleep quality was significantly related to waking neck stiffness and shoulder pain.
  • Feather pillow users provided consistently low reports of pillow comfort and sleep quality.
So, this study concludes that many participants appear to have made poor pillow choices for themselves as poor sleep quality, low pillow comfort, and waking symptoms were common. (1)
 
Don’t let your pillow hurt you anymore! Talk with your Groton chiropractic partner about Groton pillow choices that may give you a superior night’s rest, leading to better mornings without neck pain.
 
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