Back pain and Sleeping Problems

HERMANN WELLNESS

Back Pain and Sleeping Problems

If your not sleeping well, this can cause your back or neck pain be aggravated. If your neck or back pain are aggravated, you may not sleep well. Let's review some sleeping tips, commonly called sleep hygiene to help you sleep better.

1. Your bed should be used for two reasons, sleeping and sex. Don't read in bed, watch tv, or listen to the radio.

2. Train your brain to fall asleep when you go to bed, not the activities listed in number 1.

3. If you try to go to sleep and you don't fall asleep within 20 minutes, get up and go to a different room and do something boring. Try to go to sleep again in about a half an hour. If you don't fall asleep in 20 minutes get up again. Don't just lay in bed. The goal is to train your brain to sleep when you hit the bed.

4. Go to bed at the same time and wake up at the same time each night.

5. No caffeine, hopefully none at all, but definitely not after noon.

6. Don't drink much after dinner or with dinner, so you don't have to get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

7. Your alarm clock should be positioned to face away from you. You do not want to wake up and look at the clock. You will train your brain to wake up at the same time each night!

8. No naps during the day, even if your tired.

9. If you have an area that's painful, put ice on that area for 15 to 20 minutes before bedtime.

Hopefully these tips will help you sleep better. Have a good night!

Dr Hermann