Why is it dangerous to sleep on a sofa bed
'13.03.2019'
Source: Rambler
Sofa bed - an indispensable attribute of the majority of Soviet apartments. In small rooms, they were a real salvation, combining the functions of a living sofa in the afternoon, and at night - a full bed.
Since then, a lot has changed: the apartments have become different, the living space has expanded considerably, the number of rooms has increased, but the love for the sofa beds among Russians has remained the same, writes Rambler.
Experts of the Healthy Sleep Association of the United States are confident that not even the best sofa can match the comfort and the ability to get a healthy sleep with a bed equipped with a high-quality mattress. In the United States and Western Europe, it is not customary to use the sofa as a permanent bed. This is, as a rule, furniture for the living room, on which they only sit and lie by the TV, but for a short time. The main dream should be only in bed. Even if the bedroom is very small, the average West European or American inhabitant will take up all of its space with a large, comfortable bed.
Roman Buzunov, President of the Russian Society of Somnologists, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Professor, MD, a leading Russian expert on insomnia, snoring, sleep apnea, explains that the design of the sofa itself is mostly unsuitable for long-term sleep. They are all too tough for such a procedure. And even if a person is accustomed to such a bed, his back will continue to experience inconvenience and "notify" about this periodic pain. The fact is that in the place where the body lies directly, there are increased pressure points. As a rule, these are shoulders, knees, ribs, sacrum.
That is, the load on the body is unevenly distributed, because of which the blood circulation in the limbs is disturbed, and the spine is forced to adapt to an uncomfortable body position. Dr. Buzunov agrees with Western experts who argue that only a bed can provide a healthy sound sleep and ideal conditions for the back.
As for sofas, Roman Buzanov also cites a number of reasons why you should not sleep on sofa beds all the time. First, their design is such that they have at least one fold. And this is probably the best option. The more compact the sofa bed, the more it folds, therefore, it has more folds. And each fold is an uneven surface, an inconvenient location of the back, curvature of the spine.
