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Someone told you to sleep differently, and nobody mentioned the pillow
These pages do not tell you how to sleep. Whoever gave you the instruction governs it entirely, and if this page and your clinician disagree, your clinician is right. What is here is the geometry: what the position you have been asked to adopt does to the height of pillow that fits you.
I have been told to sleep on my back
On your side, the pillow fills the gap your SHOULDER creates. On your back, the shoulder is out of the equation entire…I have been told to sleep on my side
The reverse of the same arithmetic, and the more uncomfortable direction. Your shoulder now has to be accommodated, so…I have been told to sleep propped up
Elevation is meant to raise your whole upper body. Stacked bed pillows raise your HEAD instead, folding your neck forw…My lash technician told me to stop sleeping on my face
The advice everyone gives is correct and incomplete: sleep on your back, use a smooth pillowcase. What none of it ment…I am pregnant and have been told to sleep on my side
Most pregnancy pillow advice is about supporting the bump, the knees and the back — a body pillow does that, and does …My arm is in a sling and I cannot get comfortable
A sling does two things to the arithmetic at once. It stops you turning over, so whichever side you are on is the side…I sleep in a cervical collar and cannot turn my head
A collar holds your head at a fixed angle to your shoulders and removes the adjustment your neck normally makes all ni…
What a pillow can be asked to do here
| loft in measured range | Pillow loft within the range your own measurement implies. This is first for every constraint in this cluster, because no surface is soft enough to rescue a pillow your head has already flattened. |
|---|---|
| position tolerant support | Support that does not depend on hitting one exact spot, so rolling over does not mean re-finding a position in the dark. |
| contact removal preferred | An opening or cut-out that removes contact outright, rather than spreading the load. The right answer when the object cannot compress and the tissue under it is the problem — a healing piercing, or a mask frame that has nowhere else to go. |
| adjustability preferred | A pillow whose height you can change, because the thing altering your geometry is not present every night — one fixed height cannot be right both with and without it. |