Comments on: Do Doctors Recommend Firm or Soft Mattresses and Which is Better? http://www.stlbeds.com/articles/2008/04/21/do-doctors-recommend-firm-or-soft-mattresses-and-which-is-better/ Tips, Techniques and Articles that Lead to a Better Night's Sleep Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:39:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Doug http://www.stlbeds.com/articles/2008/04/21/do-doctors-recommend-firm-or-soft-mattresses-and-which-is-better/#comment-175 Doug Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:29:29 +0000 http://www.stlbeds.com/articles/2008/04/21/do-doctors-recommend-firm-or-soft-mattresses-and-which-is-better/#comment-175 Unfortunately Annaswamy your commentary shrugs off the important fundamental question I asked during a time when more and more doctors are over prescribing or incorrectly prescribing, a time in which it is becoming more common for doctors to spend less time getting to know their patients not to mention their needs. I’ll add it seems that more and more doctors are being persuaded into opinions however right or wrong those opinions may be through paid endorsements. All things I lacked to note in the blog. It makes me sick the number of doctors / chiropractors that make bold or even ridiculous mattress diagnoses to their patients with no understanding of mattresses what so ever. One day they tell you sleeping on a waterbed is good, the next its bad, hard mattresses are the best; the next day soft mattresses are the best. Annaswamy the one thing we could probably agree on is that the doctors do not agree with one another on the subject of which mattresses are best. I would like to see some cold hard evidence of which mattress is better? I am not sure such evidence exists at this time. Come on doctors and Chiropractors step up and speak you piece! Annaswamy I mean absolutely no disrespect, however I would like to make a simple point by thanking you for allowing us all to say the words BYE BYE BACK PAIN. With that 45 years of trying various mattresses and designs, it seems you have single handedly solved the world’s mattress dilemma with one mattress, that so far Sealy, Serta, Simmons and Spring Air could not do with thousands. I hope you own a mattress retail store because you will make millions of dollars based on your GENERAL 5 Step mattress design you have so generously shared with us. Annaswamy I am always willing to learn from people who will teach me what they know and I continue to read extensively on the topic of mattresses so I can help people sleep better and get better support every night. I don’t claim to know everything about mattresses and never will but throughout my mattress-selling career I have been honest and helpful. I will add that I have not once prescribed or recommend such things as hard, medium, or soft pillow tops or non-pillow tops, waterbeds, memory foam, latex, airbeds, or even hybrids something many physicians can’t say. Ok, I will admit I have my personal favorites and have made suggestions to customers, but I never told anyone that is what they have to have or forced my opinions or biases on a single Water Works Sleep Center or Sleep Station customer in my 22+ years of selling mattresses. Annaswamy it is unfortunate your comment still leaves my readers looking for the answer to my initial question… Do Doctors Recommend hard or Soft Mattresses and which is better which my readers still seeking the answer too. I did not ask the questions which mattress is better to sleep on a hard mattress or soft mattress, nor was the blog about mattress design or mattress comfort or even what makes a healthy mattress all thinks you criticized me on and challenged my lack of knowledge. However these would all be great blog ideas that I appreciate them and may very well write about such topics in future blogs, I hope you will come back and read them. In all my blogs my goal is to stay on topic. My principal goal is to assist people in mattress related Internet searches who seek out the answers to their mattress related questions. Annaswamy, thank you, for your comment you are always welcome here and welcome to comment, even though we seem to disagree. Doug Unfortunately Annaswamy your commentary shrugs off the important fundamental question I asked during a time when more and more doctors are over prescribing or incorrectly prescribing, a time in which it is becoming more common for doctors to spend less time getting to know their patients not to mention their needs. I’ll add it seems that more and more doctors are being persuaded into opinions however right or wrong those opinions may be through paid endorsements. All things I lacked to note in the blog.

It makes me sick the number of doctors / chiropractors that make bold or even ridiculous mattress diagnoses to their patients with no understanding of mattresses what so ever. One day they tell you sleeping on a waterbed is good, the next its bad, hard mattresses are the best; the next day soft mattresses are the best. Annaswamy the one thing we could probably agree on is that the doctors do not agree with one another on the subject of which mattresses are best. I would like to see some cold hard evidence of which mattress is better? I am not sure such evidence exists at this time.

Come on doctors and Chiropractors step up and speak you piece!

Annaswamy I mean absolutely no disrespect, however I would like to make a simple point by thanking you for allowing us all to say the words BYE BYE BACK PAIN. With that 45 years of trying various mattresses and designs, it seems you have single handedly solved the world’s mattress dilemma with one mattress, that so far Sealy, Serta, Simmons and Spring Air could not do with thousands. I hope you own a mattress retail store because you will make millions of dollars based on your GENERAL 5 Step mattress design you have so generously shared with us.

Annaswamy I am always willing to learn from people who will teach me what they know and I continue to read extensively on the topic of mattresses so I can help people sleep better and get better support every night. I don’t claim to know everything about mattresses and never will but throughout my mattress-selling career I have been honest and helpful. I will add that I have not once prescribed or recommend such things as hard, medium, or soft pillow tops or non-pillow tops, waterbeds, memory foam, latex, airbeds, or even hybrids something many physicians can’t say. Ok, I will admit I have my personal favorites and have made suggestions to customers, but I never told anyone that is what they have to have or forced my opinions or biases on a single Water Works Sleep Center or Sleep Station customer in my 22+ years of selling mattresses.

Annaswamy it is unfortunate your comment still leaves my readers looking for the answer to my initial question…
Do Doctors Recommend hard or Soft Mattresses and which is better which my readers still seeking the answer too. I did not ask the questions which mattress is better to sleep on a hard mattress or soft mattress, nor was the blog about mattress design or mattress comfort or even what makes a healthy mattress all thinks you criticized me on and challenged my lack of knowledge. However these would all be great blog ideas that I appreciate them and may very well write about such topics in future blogs, I hope you will come back and read them. In all my blogs my goal is to stay on topic. My principal goal is to assist people in mattress related Internet searches who seek out the answers to their mattress related questions.

Annaswamy, thank you, for your comment you are always welcome here and welcome to comment, even though we seem to disagree.
Doug

]]> By: Annaswamy Natarajan http://www.stlbeds.com/articles/2008/04/21/do-doctors-recommend-firm-or-soft-mattresses-and-which-is-better/#comment-170 Annaswamy Natarajan Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:59:13 +0000 http://www.stlbeds.com/articles/2008/04/21/do-doctors-recommend-firm-or-soft-mattresses-and-which-is-better/#comment-170 After reading the April 21, 2008 article: "Do Doctors Recommend Firm or Soft Mattresses and Which is Better?", I am lead to conclude that the writer of that article knows little about mattress design or mattress comfort. I am not arguing the writer's observation that doctors who prescribe mattress type are ignorant about mattress design and comfort. That may or may not be the case. Surely the writer of that article needs to learn about what makes a healthy mattress. After some 45 years of trying various mattresses and designs, I have come to the following conclusion. IN GENERAL, the most comfortable and healthy bed must be designed as follows: 1. The bed must be a platform bed. A hardwoood platform with multiple supports so that the plank does not bend over time is important. 2. The base of the bed must be of cery firm mattress of polyurethane material with high ULD. This base MUST NOT be thicker than 4 inches. 3. The top layer must be of thickness 1 inch or less of heavy duty memory foam. 4. The two layers MUST be glued. 5. The entire mattress of thickness 5 inches max must be wrapped in a soft cover. This will be the best sleeping platform for most everyone. BYE BYE BACK PAIN. Annaswamy Natarajan Disclaimer: If the person has serious health issues, that person may need a different design. After reading the April 21, 2008 article:
“Do Doctors Recommend Firm or Soft Mattresses and Which is Better?”, I am lead to conclude that the writer of that article knows little about mattress design or mattress comfort. I am not arguing the writer’s observation that doctors who prescribe mattress type are ignorant about mattress design and comfort. That may or may not be the case. Surely the writer of that article needs to learn about what makes a healthy mattress.

After some 45 years of trying various mattresses and designs, I have come to the following conclusion. IN GENERAL, the most comfortable and healthy bed must be designed as follows:

1. The bed must be a platform bed. A hardwoood platform with multiple supports so that the plank does not bend over time is important.
2. The base of the bed must be of cery firm mattress of polyurethane material with high ULD. This base MUST NOT be thicker than 4 inches.
3. The top layer must be of thickness 1 inch or less of heavy duty memory foam.
4. The two layers MUST be glued.
5. The entire mattress of thickness 5 inches max must be wrapped in a soft cover.
This will be the best sleeping platform for most everyone.

BYE BYE BACK PAIN.

Annaswamy Natarajan

Disclaimer:

If the person has serious health issues, that person may need a different design.

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