common misconceptions and furniture lobby propaganda

[jverne]

So don't know if any of you read this thread
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=157862

But as of now i have been sleeping on the floor with no more than a 5 cm thick foam for 4 months.
I have a mildly dislodged vertebrate due to a stupid accident in my teens which caused me chronic low back pain.

The results...after just two months sleeping on the 5 cm thick foam almost solved my problem, the pain was almost gone (actually it was completely gone).

One thing happened right after that...it was summer and we started going to the beach again. The accident that started these problems in the first place was that i jumped into the water in a bad position which dislodged my vertebrate (i was 16). After those 2 months sleeping on the floor i felt completely cured...and guess what, i started doing stupid jumps again which i hurt my back again in the same spot.

Now i'm two months later i'm still sleeping on the floor and seems my back is slowly recovering and i hope i didn't hurt it that much like previously. I'm also more cautious since the first accident. Although i fear the damage might have already been done.

One thing i changed also was the chair i sit on. Previously i had some fancy office chair which i thought it would be good for my back. Now i changed it to a short, flat, wooden stool without any back rest or arm rests. Since the stool is much shorter than the chair compared to the desk height i sit alot more upright and i can feel the back muscles working, that means they are getting stronger and keeping my back in the right posture. also with no back and arm rests you almost have no choice but to keep straight. No unhealthy leaning to one side, especially if you sit for many hours in front of the computer. Also i lifted my monitor to eye height...keeps my head up straight compared to looking down.

The moral of the story is:

-i'm a complete idiot for breaking my back twice in the same fashion.

-do not believe the BS propaganda of soft beds and ultra comfy chairs, sometimes the simplest solution is the best



P.S. these measures come with some sacrifices. Sleeping on your side is usually very uncomfortable because of the hard surface and the only really usable position is sleeping on your back...thankfully that's my favorite kind of position.
I can't say anything for the stool right now since i've just started using it. I'll report in a few months.

 

[CptStern]

get someone to smash your ankles with a sledgehammer. walking is SOOO overrated anyways especially when you can get one of these:

sweeeet, you'll be the envy of all your handicapped neighbours

 

[jverne]

get someone to smash your ankles with a sledgehammer. walking is SOOO overrated anyways especially when you can get one of these:

sweeeet, you'll be the envy of all your handicapped neighbours

I really can't tell if you're being sarcastic or genuinely critical.

If you're perfectly healthy then obviously you don't give a shit about what i say, but if you have similar problems then you might give it a try. There were some studies made about similar issues but most of them were inconclusive.
So it's basically left up to yourself, for some it might work for some not ,either that or put trust in those who think what's better for your body. And guess what...the doctors couldn't help me with my problem because research on this issue is just to scarce. And besides this it not some stupid shit like homeopathy and bio energy. It's actual biomechanics->physics.

 

[Krynn72]

Are you sure you're not just healing naturally, you know, like the human body tends to do.

 

[VirusType2]

I used to have back pain every morning until I got a memory foam mattress. But the previous mattress was very old, so I'm not saying a good spring mattress wouldn't have helped.

 

[jverne]

Are you sure you're not just healing naturally, you know, like the human body tends to do.

i'm pretty sure not, since i had the same pain for almost 7 years and then in went away in just 2 months after sleeping on the floor.


and i also have an memory foam mattress which is eons better than the usual shitty spring mattress but still i found thin foam to be better. the memory mattress after 8 hours still gets squished enough to malign the spine, wooden floor does not.

 

[Remus]

I don't have any back injuries, and I can say for certain that extremely soft mattresses are very bad for you back.

At the place I'm staying to go to Uni, I sleep on a hard spring mattress, and home I have this very soft extendable bed. Well, when I went back home during summer, I had a hard time getting to sleep, and when I woke up I had severe back pain... :|