This has been one of the many recurring issues in the bedding industry, which weight more heavily against the consumers than the manufacturers. Many mattress reviews made by experts in the industry, air their concerns about the number of products that are being packaged as orthopedic mattresses every year, yet, some orthopedic mattresses products' claims are downright irrelevant to the problem and may cause more harm than good to the suffering patients. So how do we know if a mattress is truly orthopedic? The answer is we can't.
There are no existing standards for orthopedic mattresses set by law. Thereby any manufacturer can assert their mattresses to be orthopedic without worrying about quality control and effectiveness. Which is why there is a wide and tremendous variation of these kinds, from orthopedic mattresses types to their selling prices? Any cheap mattresses can claim to be orthopedic mattresses in any given day, and whether they have serious cases to back them up, that remains to be seen.
However, there are some mattresses that are generally accepted in different mattress reviews to be orthopedic or have bragging rights to be. And they don't need to be made-up of Visco-Elastic materials to be called as such. Although the memory foam technology was conceived to answer the growing needs of the world for orthopedic mattresses, the innerspring mattresses remained to have serious followings, not to mention that natural latex are highly regarded in some mattress reviews to be very effective as well. Here is of the list the best types of orthopedic mattresses that I will trim down to three to avoid further confusions.
Innerspring mattresses
For an innerspring mattress to be considered orthopedic, they have to meet a certain criteria. Most innerspring cheap mattresses composed of coils less than 256 springs/sq. meter have no right to be called orthopedic. The required number of coils as pointed out in many independent mattress reviews should be 256 springs/sq. meter and over. Spring blocks innerspring mattresses usually have 100 pieces of coils connected by rows. These types of innerspring mattress do not hold up the body weight comfortably and just don't have what it takes to heal or prevent orthopedic conditions from happening or recurring. The pocket coils innerspring mattresses however, have a number of coils of 256/sq. meter properly independent coils to 500-1000 coils/ sq. meter multi-pocket springs. The number of springs and the quality of materials used to make the coils determine the effectiveness of the bed. The more coils used, the better the mattress in spreading the weight across the important pressure points of the body, thereby leaving no single pressure point like the hip or the back, to bear the entire weight of the body at rest. However, most issues often mentioned are the durability of the products. The effectiveness of innerspring orthopedic mattresses grew weaker as they aged.
Natural latex
Natural latex mattresses are generally known as hypo-allergenic mattresses, which is their strongest character to date. However, it is interesting to note that some of the best innerspring orthopedic mattresses are stuffed with natural latex foams along with other organic products like wool and coconut fibers to form part of the cushions, so it is not entirely surprising that some manufacturers chose to packaged natural latex orthopedic mattresses. Some high-end products can actually do the trick. Like the memory foams, latex mattresses are not only highly flexible but are usually firm enough to keep the body at the surface rather than overwhelm the sleeper. Most mattress reviews name the top manufacturers of natural latex foams to be highly effective in removing or preventing orthopedic problems to occur during sleep, unfortunately, most of them are not considered to be cheap mattresses.
Memory foams
The memory foam is the only mattress among the three types of orthopedic mattresses mentioned to have been primarily conceived to answer the growing needs of the consumers for orthopedic mattresses. The memory foam technology was based on the scientific studies originally made by NASA scientists to help ease-up the pressure from building in the astronauts' bodies at lift-off. The astronauts at the time are complaining about the orthopedic problems the gravity pull are causing to their bodies' bone structures when the space shuttles leaved the earth's atmosphere. By the time the visco-elastic material was made available to the public, the best orthopedic mattress that needs no further confirmations by expert mattress reviews, was born. However, the quality in materials used plays an important role in the effectiveness of the product, furthermore, the visco-elastic mattresses are compose of toxic materials that are potentially damaging to human health. So you need to weight your options carefully.
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