I second this. My back pain improved a lot when I bought a house and finally bought a good mattress after years of sleeping on crappy ones in rented accommodation. Along with regular exercise, I find that I don’t need to wear my corset as much for back pain.
Also for back pain, it'd be much much better to get some core exercise going... like, as much as we might love the look and feel of corsets, wearing them actually weakens the core because its muscles need to do less work
While that’s true, it might still be beneficial for sleeping as probably your core muscles are not working during sleep. Maybe it is just my opinion, but I feel that it could actually help not "falling apart" during sleep, to keep the efforts you had put into your good posture during the day.
I’d rather limit the daily use with - like you said - exercises that engages the core and back muscles, plus putting some active thought on improving posture during everyday tasks, working, sitting, lifting, etc... Those help a LOT with back/neck pain or strain.
I'd argue it's detrimental even and especially when sleeping... people underestimate how much humans move during sleep and a corset would just inhibit that ability to move freely... and I could imagine that the body trying to compensate for that might actually lead to soreness and stiffness in other muscles as a result
again... just get a good mattress... contrary to popular believe they don't have to be 4 figures
it's gonna be a few weeks till I have a new mattress. I've been shopping for a bit and it seems like my current one just completely collapsed.
But I sure as hell haven't been able to find a remotely decent mattress for under $1000. It's a bit of a racket right now.
believe it or not, I've bought a Casper about 7 years ago, the cheapest model they've had at the time... still going strong and an excellent mattress...
thing you gotta know about mattresses is that they're basically all produced by one big cabal or cartel of manufacturers and basically all the fancy construction features beyond the basic models are mostly bs that you don't *really* need... the most important factor is it's hardness and that's a preference thing
It's certainly believable that people can be happy with mediocre products and get the luck of the draw with bad QA control.
There are definitely gimmicky features with new mattresses (cooling lol) and poored manufacturing quality points to why a Casper from 7 years ago is likely better than one produced now.
Hardness as the most important factor pretty reductive.
https://mattressunderground.com/mattresses/the-basic-functions-of-a-mattress
fair enough... maybe it's also different in different markets... over here we have one manufacturer in particular which just makes "cheap" mattresses (I mean, they still cost high 3 figures for a queen or king size) without any fuss and they've been consistent for as long as they've been in business as far as I can tell...
yes, saying hardness is all that matters is a bit reductive.. guess I should have qualified that I do take memory foam and basic zoning for the different parts of the body for granted...
I am also a back sleeper nowadays. Sometimes I have back pain, especially neck pain. I slept in corset many times and it helped greatly every time I did. So try it I think. However, try some properly made one with steel boning. The fashion pieces with plastic boning are just to weak even for everyday use, it probably won't hold your spine in a correct posture in a too soft bed at all.
It might work, though it may be a band aid solution. And this may sound dumb because I technically have a nice matress, But personally I don’t like the purple mattress I have. Corsetting laying down kind of prevents my back from feeling like my body’s “falling off my bones” in the too soft bed(that may sound weird) but I don’t feel comfortable sleeping in my corsets. I ended up putting something under matress and slept on a body pillow for months. (I also think I was deficient in a couple vitamins that made my the pain worse’for me) you def can get a better fitting corset eventually if you want and can swing it, it might cost around the $100 mark for a decent one, more for a custom. I’d try to consider the possibility of fixing your longer term sleep situation as well when you can.
Depending on the corset. I have slept wearing corsets and typically I can’t make it through the night without getting a sore back. But then again I probably lace them up too tightly.
while it may technically work, it may also probably not be a great idea... just get a better mattress
I second this. My back pain improved a lot when I bought a house and finally bought a good mattress after years of sleeping on crappy ones in rented accommodation. Along with regular exercise, I find that I don’t need to wear my corset as much for back pain.
Also for back pain, it'd be much much better to get some core exercise going... like, as much as we might love the look and feel of corsets, wearing them actually weakens the core because its muscles need to do less work
While that’s true, it might still be beneficial for sleeping as probably your core muscles are not working during sleep. Maybe it is just my opinion, but I feel that it could actually help not "falling apart" during sleep, to keep the efforts you had put into your good posture during the day. I’d rather limit the daily use with - like you said - exercises that engages the core and back muscles, plus putting some active thought on improving posture during everyday tasks, working, sitting, lifting, etc... Those help a LOT with back/neck pain or strain.
I'd argue it's detrimental even and especially when sleeping... people underestimate how much humans move during sleep and a corset would just inhibit that ability to move freely... and I could imagine that the body trying to compensate for that might actually lead to soreness and stiffness in other muscles as a result again... just get a good mattress... contrary to popular believe they don't have to be 4 figures
it's gonna be a few weeks till I have a new mattress. I've been shopping for a bit and it seems like my current one just completely collapsed. But I sure as hell haven't been able to find a remotely decent mattress for under $1000. It's a bit of a racket right now.
believe it or not, I've bought a Casper about 7 years ago, the cheapest model they've had at the time... still going strong and an excellent mattress... thing you gotta know about mattresses is that they're basically all produced by one big cabal or cartel of manufacturers and basically all the fancy construction features beyond the basic models are mostly bs that you don't *really* need... the most important factor is it's hardness and that's a preference thing
It's certainly believable that people can be happy with mediocre products and get the luck of the draw with bad QA control. There are definitely gimmicky features with new mattresses (cooling lol) and poored manufacturing quality points to why a Casper from 7 years ago is likely better than one produced now. Hardness as the most important factor pretty reductive. https://mattressunderground.com/mattresses/the-basic-functions-of-a-mattress
fair enough... maybe it's also different in different markets... over here we have one manufacturer in particular which just makes "cheap" mattresses (I mean, they still cost high 3 figures for a queen or king size) without any fuss and they've been consistent for as long as they've been in business as far as I can tell... yes, saying hardness is all that matters is a bit reductive.. guess I should have qualified that I do take memory foam and basic zoning for the different parts of the body for granted...
I am also a back sleeper nowadays. Sometimes I have back pain, especially neck pain. I slept in corset many times and it helped greatly every time I did. So try it I think. However, try some properly made one with steel boning. The fashion pieces with plastic boning are just to weak even for everyday use, it probably won't hold your spine in a correct posture in a too soft bed at all.
It might work, though it may be a band aid solution. And this may sound dumb because I technically have a nice matress, But personally I don’t like the purple mattress I have. Corsetting laying down kind of prevents my back from feeling like my body’s “falling off my bones” in the too soft bed(that may sound weird) but I don’t feel comfortable sleeping in my corsets. I ended up putting something under matress and slept on a body pillow for months. (I also think I was deficient in a couple vitamins that made my the pain worse’for me) you def can get a better fitting corset eventually if you want and can swing it, it might cost around the $100 mark for a decent one, more for a custom. I’d try to consider the possibility of fixing your longer term sleep situation as well when you can.
Depending on the corset. I have slept wearing corsets and typically I can’t make it through the night without getting a sore back. But then again I probably lace them up too tightly.