Full Size Air Mattresses
How a Full Size Air Mattress Offers You Customized Comfort
Many believe a full size air mattress to be inferior to a standard spring mattress, and that the former is useful only as an air mattress guest bed for occasional use. In fact, they would be totally wrong, and the increasing popularity of air mattresses has not come about because most people have suddenly had masses of friends and relatives descending on them for accommodation - even for a night!
Size Matters!
Far from it! The reason for the increased sales of such mattresses is because of the research and development invested in them, and a greater understanding of the needs of the human body while sleeping. Let's discuss that in more detail in respect of a traditional full size sprung mattress and a full size air mattress. The term 'full size' is important, because in bed size matters - small mattresses react differently to pressure than larger ones.
What happens when you lie down on a mattress? If you lie on your back, the pressure points of your body will be your buttocks and your shoulders. If the resistance to that pressure is insufficient then your spine will be bent upward between its bottom and top and you will experience back pain because of this. You need a firm mattress if you sleep on your back, and the same is true irrespective of your sleeping position.
However, it would be uncomfortable to sleep on a solid base, such as a concrete floor, which is why those that sleep rough outdoors make a 'hip hollow' for themselves. You rely on your mattress to offer the correct degree of resistance to sagging under your weight while offering support to the various areas of your body that need it without causing pain through excessive pressure on your 'protuberances'. Hmm. . .
The 'Luxury' of a Spring Mattress
A spring mattress was the standard of total luxury when it first came onto the market, and is still regarded by most as the basis of their preferred type of bed. The problem with springs, particularly bedsprings, is that they do not share the load efficiently. Those springs beneath the pressure points of your body are compressed more than the rest, so that your skeleton is moved into an unnatural position.
OK, if there was no resistance to your hip or shoulder when lying on one side or another, then you might feel some pressure pain against them, and it's agreed that there must be some 'give' to prevent this, but after not too long a traditionally sprung mattress will offer too much give and you will eventually suffer because of it, though this might not show for some years. Such mattresses last 2-3 years before losing their support.
Each spring in a traditional mattress works by itself, and when it has been compressed by your body it stays that way until you move off it - the rest of the springs do not share the pressure except in a minimal fashion. It makes little difference to the shared load if they are linked in a frame - each spring is held back slightly by the other, but they do not equal the load.
An Air Mattress Shares
So how does a full size air mattress react to the pressure points of your body? Well, first of all an air mattress contains no discrete compressible units that operate practically independently of the rest. A modern air mattress is not simply a big bag of air as the original versions were designed, and that is possibly how you regard them: A big bag of air, blown up by your mouth, a hand pump or a foot pump. Not so!
An air mattress guest bed, as most regard them today, is an advanced item of technology whereby individual air compartments compress when required for your comfort, but then offer resistance because the air between all the compartments shares and equals the load. Yes, your body will sink into the mattress, but only partially and that's what offers you the comfort in addition to the support you need.
A full size air mattress not only offers the support you need to prevent skeletal deformation and pain in your back and neck, but also the comfort you need for a good night's sleep. In fact, because of the compartmental design, certain air compartments can be isolated with their own air supply, and two partners can modify their side of the bed to meet their own particular needs - that cannot be done with a standard sprung double bed.
Not only that, but because the firmness of air mattresses can be adjusted at will, you can change the hardness or softness of your bed whenever you want to without affecting your partner's side of the bed. With the advanced beds you can even change the degree of resistance offered at the head, lumbar and foot regions of the mattress.
Full size air mattresses are not only used for an air mattress guest bed, but are technological marvels that meet your needs both for comfort and support, and if you only offer them to your guests or visitors, then you, yourself, are missing out big time!
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