Interesting how text book knowledge and real life differ. Standard text book recommendation for SpA patients is "hard bed". A plywood board under the mattress is described in more than one source.
I too have done best with down featherbeds and tempur-pedic. It may be that everybody's different (well, we already know that!). I think there's also the idea out there that people curl up and ossify in that position. My thought is that with adequate pain relief and physical therapy during the day we can do ok posture wise.
I read the story of the seventy some year old woman (here in the sidebar somewhere), who "never had backpain". Well I never had back pain, I just couldn't stand straight or walk. I was in total denial. I did not feel pain but my back muscles were so irritated I had scoliosis secondary to pain. After my severe lumbar spinal stenosis was relieved by an endoscopic laminectomy, my pain was relieved - and only then did I realize I had it.
Last edited by Bleecker; 03/28/10 07:45 AM.
