Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)
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Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)
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#2Excellent read right before shuteye.
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#3Really interesting post. It is also quite counterintuitive - I personally think a lot of people are injured in sleep (including myself), and some of the postures indicated look like they could be very challenging/dangerous. Maybe the injuries come from lying on soft mattresses and a hard surface would be better as it provides more immediate feedback of bodily stress..?
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#4Is this considered unusual? I’ve used minor variations of all of these except the sleeping on the shins posture, and I’m from Europe, not some African tribe.
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#5When I was 16, I inherited a bit of money. Not a large sum at all, but enough so that I could afford a new bed, a bookshelf and some nick-nacks from my local furniture store. Being 16, I didn't exactly put much thought into how kind my new mattress would be to my back down the line, and so I managed to find the firmest mattress known to man.
At first, it was hard to sleep on, but I'm lazy, and so I kept it. That was a good decision. Today, I have a much softer mattress, and let me tell you, I'm suffering.
Whenever I go camping in the summer, where I'm not in need of any insulation, I usually opt for just a simple, thin, foam sleeping pad, and it works wonder. The first couple of nights it's usually quite rough, not uncomfortable mind you, just hard to sleep as it's not as superficially comfortable, but after the initial acclimation my back's so much better.
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#6Really interesting post. It is also quite counterintuitive - I personally think a lot of people are injured in sleep (including myself), and some of the postures indicated look like they could be very challenging/dangerous. Maybe the injuries come from lying on soft mattresses and a hard surface would be better as it provides more immediate feedback of bodily stress..?
Soft mattresses are really not suitable for sleeping. From my experience.
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#7I find this article quite insubstantial. He lists alternative sleeping positions, but no sources backing up the claim that "western sleeping positions" (whatever that is) are worse.
Also only one citation, and that is to back up the claim that there are 200 primates.
Nice pictures though - I feel happy that I can sit (relatively) comfortably in the squatting position (as an European).
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#8Very interesting. The author of the paper is around, at least according to the internet, at 90+ years of age and still practising physiotherapy.
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#9Also, tribespeople don't spend most of their waking time sitting in front of a computer or TV.
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#10I find this article quite insubstantial. He lists alternative sleeping positions, but no sources backing up the claim that "western sleeping positions" (whatever that is) are worse. Also only one citation, and that is to back up the claim that there are 200 primates. Nice pictures though - I feel happy that I can sit (relatively) comfortably in the squatting position (as an European).
It's a pity that not more published research is available on this.