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Mattress Articles
Best Mattress (What to look for)
Back Pain and Your Mattress
When is it time to get a new Bed
Choosing the Correct Bed Firmness
Box Spring
Mattress Edge
Mattress Cover
Mattress Pads
Hotel Beds (Making the Choice)
 

Other Mattress Informational Sites:

Organic Mattress Review
Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison
 

About Us

As multi-disciplinary healthcare providers who share a special focus on low back pain, we understand the importance of a quality mattress to ensure a good night’s sleep and to support the back.  We were all frustrated with treating our patients’ low back pain successfully, only to have them return all too often with recurrent low back pain.  Many of our patients were continuing with their exercises and trying to take good care of their backs and they shared our frustration.  It soon became apparent that many of our patients were sleeping on inadequate mattresses.  Worse yet, we realized that most of our patients and even most of our colleagues didn’t understand what made a mattress “good” or “bad”.  We were partly guilty of this as well.  While we intuitively understood the importance of a mattress in supporting the spinal curvatures and maintaining alignment, we decided to research mattresses to understand them better.  We researched their “anatomy,” what is inside them, what makes them firm or soft, the different materials involved, how they break down, what makes them “feel” better or worse.  As we delved deeper into understanding mattresses, we found that, considering their obvious importance, there was in fact an appalling paucity of readily available unbiased and objective information about them.  We therefore resolved to create beds.org as a means of consolidating the information we found about mattresses in order to present it in an impartial, unbiased and easily digestible format for our patients and the public-at-large.  As we explored and learned more about mattresses, we further decided to integrate our clinical training with our understanding of mattresses to develop our own set of criteria regarding constitutes a high-quality mattress that is capable of adequately supporting the spinal column and surrounding structures.