We’ve found that most people in the market for a new bed compare spring mattress beds with memory foam mattresses. Both work in a unique fashion and have important advantages but neither is spared from drawbacks. Here are the most important disadvantages but, let’s look at the benefits first.
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Benefits Comparison
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Advantages of Visco Elastic Foam Mattresses
- Relieves pressure and enhances deep sleep by reducing pressure points, increasing comfort level and reducing night time movement by as much as 90%.
- Conforms precisely to your body, distributes weight, improves circulation, and allows your blood to flow more freely.
- Has the ability to react to body temperature, softening accordingly.
- You don’t sink right through a high-density memory foam mattress nor do you risk bottoming out.
- The foam dampens shock and absorbs the motion.
- Lifespan of 10-20 years, depending on the manufacturer.
Advantages of Spring Mattress Beds
- Good spinal alignment when sleeping on your back
- Good back support for pocket spring models
- Firmness
- It doesn’t necessarily need a foundation
- Easy maintenance
- Cost
Drawbacks Comparison
Drawbacks of Visco Elastic Mattresses
- High-quality memory foam mattresses like Tempur-Pedic are quite expensive.
- Responds with stiffness when you quickly lie down or throw yourself onto the mattress like you would do when you were a kid.
- Can get uncomfortably warm during sleep.
- Because of the melting weightlessness feeling it induces, memory foam requires an adjustment period.
- May have a strong odor when new.
Drawbacks of Spring Mattress Beds
- Wire not resistant enough. The mattress may begin to sag and a lump may appear in the center of the bed in 1-2 years (even the best of mattresses become impossible to sleep on after around 5 years).
- The pressure exerted by springs causes back pain, numbness, and tiredness in the morning, plus lots of tossing and turning during sleep.
- Has to be flipped and turned head to toe every few months to maintain its shape
- It is very heavy and thick, so it’s difficult to set up and move
Customer Opinions
The deal with a spring mattress is that they have a definite lifespan. Those springs are going to uncoil, and come sticking through the padding at some point. groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal
The divet in the middle of the bed is like falling in the grand canyon and with having my lowest vertebrae fused to my sacrum I just can’t handle the sinking of the hips (major pain).
One new development attacks the old adage that “firmer is better,” Those experts are not otherwise identified. However, a 2003 Spanish study of people with lower back pain revealed that medium-firmness mattresses help back sufferers more than hard mattresses, something to bear in mind if you have an occasional achy back. www.consumersearch.com/www/house_and_home/mattress-reviews/review.html
The only plain coil mattress and box spring mattress we had was our least favorite. It was a good one, but didn’t last that well, and never was as comfortable as the previous foam, and later waterbed. I would never go to a box spring and coil mattress again. groups.google.com/group/sci.med.transcription