Deep Sleeper

 ”It’s your  vertebra out of place causing muscle tightness” says the Chiropractor and made worse by mental and emotional tension.” Massage and Physical therapists mostly agree but there are many ways to help, many techniques.

 Neck complaints are everywhere. They cause headaches and can disturb healthy sleep. What do you do. Where do you go. Millions of dollars are spent each and every day due to neck pain. Severe pain and irritation stop us and we must lie down and we hope to rest and sleep away the pain.

 The nose over sternum and ears over shoulders is best when sitting at the computer but I contend that when it is time to sleep that this same alignment is important to set our neck into a correct ergonomic configuration so the muscles relax and tension is reduced. Some may See http://www.nonforce1.com/ for a Nonforce Chiropractor and an explanation of the technique.

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  Many who only sleep on their back, I have found with further questioning, do so because this is their “fall back position”. Other sleep positions are usually irritating or cause outright pain waking them from deep sleep. I have many customers and patients that could only sleep on there back because of shoulder pain. Now with awareness and use of my specially designed pillow many include at least one if not two other sleep positions. They also report they are sleeping much better. 

In the development of this pillow and the concepts surrounding “The Ergonomics of Sleep”  I realized that there are so many that can no longer sleep in all positions comfortably. Many of us are relegated to one or two positions and usually suffer if we move into others for very long. Some no longer sleep in various positions because  pain disturbs and wakes them from deeper levels of sleep. We can then toss and turn throughout the night and our deep sleep suffers. When pain and irration in certain positions is an issue during sleep so many in my experiance choose to sleep on their back. This ultimate ”Fallback Position” is the only position left for many. In time chronic conditions like sleep apnea become more pronounanced due to this limitation, this fallback position, this back lying sleep position.

Sincerely, Lee Parimuha DC

Ergonomics as defined by Wikipedia and spacifically the IEA in 2007….

“Ergonomics (or human factors) is the application of scientific information concerning humans to the design of objects, systems and environment for human use (definition adopted by the International Ergonomics Association in 2007). Ergonomics is commonly thought of as how companies design tasks and work areas to maximize the efficiency and quality of their employees’ work. However, ergonomics comes into everything which involves people. Work systems, sports and leisure, health and safety should all embody ergonomics principles if well designed.(International Ergonomics Association in 2007) It is the applied science of equipment design intended to maximize productivity by reducing operator fatigue and discomfort. The field is also called biotechnology, human engineering, and human factors engineering.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomics

Ergonomics is the science of how humans are effected by their environment. Sleep ergonomics or more precisely the ergonomics of sleep is an ill defined concept with scanty references in literature found by this writer. The combination of the science of sleep and  the ergonomic studies I have found has been relegated mostly to how the lack of sleep builds up sleep debt, is responsible for great losses in work productivity and is the number one cause for many work injuries.

The Ergonomics of Sleep as will be defined and discussed in this blog is, the ability to lie in repose, where a chosen sleep posture will either enhance comfort allowing the body to relax, or result in physical discomfort, requiring movement to find comfort again. The positions one choses to sleep in defines comfort at this moment and may last a short or longer periods of time. Sleep positions one does not lie in or moves out of relatively quickly, I argue, are positions that would bring about pain or enough discomfort that it activates the brains need to have the body move. This need to move the body and find comfort again is due to a physiological need to avoid pain.  This being said I do believe that there are many reasons why one will move in bed. An important one,  not sufficiently studied, in my opinion, is the need to avoid pain, by body positional changes necessary to gain relief and find comfort. Hence arises the study of “body sleep positions“, or what I term ”the ergonomics of sleep“.  

How can a chosen body position during sleep cause pain and does this influence ability to fall asleep, go deeply into this state, and be able stay there for extended periods of time?

I am not a sleep specialist but do have expertise in ergonomics, anatomy and physiology so my ideas connecting the various sciences will be bolstered in time and supported by sleep and psychological sciences as I write. Please comment and add to the discussion as you deem fit.

All comments will be seriously considered and are appriciated.

Sincerely,

Lee Parimuha DC

  And if tonight my soul may find her peace
in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower
then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
~D.H. Lawrence

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Welcome to Deep Sleeper blog where the your birth right of healthy deep sleep is cherished. Sleep is a natural process that can be rediscovered avoiding the numbing effects of medication. I do realize many need this type of help but I also know so many that would try another way if it there was only hope. The Law of Attraction can help build a better sleep senerio with  life in balance as a key ingredient. This blog will discuss what to do and how to do it from new prospectives. May the Blessings Be.

For better Deep Sleep,  Sincerely,

Lee Parimuha DC