Durfi Hybrid Pocket Spring Mattress
This mattress has great breathability and is a good choice for hot sleepers.
The Durfi Hybrid Pocket Spring is a great mattress for a wide variety of sleepers.
It's uniquely designed with an individualised helix pattern and Tungsten carbide pocket coils that allow your body weight to be evenly distributed.
The Durfi Hybrid mattress also features a top layer of the uniquely branded "Cotton Candy" memory foam. ⛅️
Memory foam effectively eliminates motion and partner disturbances, making this a great mattress for couples.
It's also anti-bacterial (and an ideal choice for people prone to allergies), offers great lower back support and edge support, and conforms to any body shape for exceptional sleep quality.
The hybrid nature gives the mattress more buoyancy and allows for effective temperature regulation. 💨
The Durfi Hybrid Pocket Spring mattress is a very durable choice likely to last for a long time.
It comes with a 30-night trial period and a 10-year warranty. 🗓
| Durfi Hybrid Pocket Spring Mattress | |
| Composition: | Memory foam and pocket springs |
| Firmness level: | Medium-firm |
| Height: | 15 cm (6 inches), 20 cm (8 inches), or 25 cm (10 inches) |
| Trial period: | 30 days |
| Guarantee: | 10 years |
| What makes this mattress special? | Very low motion transfer and a great choice for couples |
Wakefit Orthopaedic Memory Foam Mattress
This mattress responds to the pressure applied to it and ensures quality sleep.
Wakefit is one of the best mattress companies, delivering top-of-the-line products to its customers.
Their memory foam mattress provides an uninterrupted quality sleep to its users. 🛏
The mattress responds to the pressure applied to it and relieves any soreness.
This bed in a box evenly distributes your body weight and offers excellent lumbar support while sleeping.
It has a seven-pressure-zone layer that customises comfort for every part of your body and offers varying levels of support.
This ensures that you can easily sleep on your back while keeping your entire body in line.
The Wakefit Orthopaedic Memory Foam mattress comes with a high-quality organic cotton cover.
It ensures airflow and makes sure that your body heat is regulated all night long. 🌙
Additionally, the mattress offers good motion isolation, making it perfect for a disturbance-free sleep.
The Wakefit Orthopaedic mattress comes with free delivery and returns, a 100-night sleep trial period, and a 10-year warranty.
| Wakefit Orthopaedic Memory Foam Mattress | |
| Composition: | Memory foam |
| Firmness level: | Medium-firm |
| Height: | 12.7 cm (5 inches), 15.2 cm (6 inches), 20.3 cm (8 inches) |
| Trial period: | 100 days |
| Guarantee: | 10 years |
| What makes this mattress special? | Superior spinal alignment and great motion transfer |
Springtek Euro Top Hybrid Latex Pocket Spring Mattress
This mattress will help you sleep cooler and more comfortably.
The Springtek Euro Top Hybrid Latex Pocket Spring Mattress is known as one of the best spring mattresses in India!
It combines 100% natural latex with individually-wrapped pocket coils.
The latex is highly breathable and provides good ventilation, keeping you cool on hot summer nights. ☀️
The mattress is medium-firm, making it soft enough (and firm enough) for a wide range of sleepers.
The pocketed coils also allow for good body support, no matter your preferred sleeping position. 🤗
The mattress has a pillow top layer with a soft quilted cover for extra comfort.
It comes with a 30-day trial period and an 8-year limited warranty. 🗓
| Springtek Euro Top Hybrid Latex Pocket Spring Mattress | |
| Composition: | Latex and pocket springs |
| Firmness level: | Medium firm |
| Height: | 20.32 cm (8 inches) |
| Trial period: | 30 days |
| Guarantee: | 8 years |
| What makes this mattress special? | The latex layer is naturally breathable and more durable than memory foam. |
The Sleep Company Smart Luxe Mattress
This mattress has over 2500 air channels and is suitable for hot sleepers.
The Sleep Company Smart Luxe mattress offers two times more support than a traditional orthopaedic mattress, guaranteeing you a luxurious, plush feeling.
This mattress is built with cloud-like comfort and offers great back support.
This relieves your pressure points and prevents back and neck soreness. 🤩
The Smart Luxe mattress offers the most advanced sleep technology and easily adapts to the shape of your body.
This patented mattress technology is soft where you need comfort and has a firm side where you need support.
The breathable mattress offers over 2500 air channels to keep you cool and comfortable all night long. 🍃
This makes the mattress perfect for hot sleepers.
The company creates the mattress with multiple layers.
Each layer is designed to support your back and provides cushioning to your joints.
The Sleep Company Smart Luxe mattress comes with free delivery and returns, a 100-night sleep trial period, and a 10-year warranty. 🗓️
| The Sleep Company Smart Luxe Mattress | |
| Composition: | Patented smart grid |
| Firmness level: | Medium-soft |
| Height: | 15 cm (6 inches), 20 cm (8 inches), 25 cm (10 inches) |
| Trial period: | 100 days |
| Guarantee: | 10 years |
| What makes this mattress special? |
Temperature neutral technology with 2500 air channels |
Sleepycat Original Mattress
This mattress conforms to the shape of your body perfectly.
The Sleepycat Original mattress offers maximum support and comfort to all its users, even if you are on the heavier side.
It evenly distributes your body weight, making it perfect for people sleeping on their back.
It has a 2.54 cm (1 inches) gel layer of memory foam on the top that contours to your body, offering full-body posture retention and maximum spinal support.
It also has a 10.16 cm (4 inches) HD foam base layer that ensures the mattress's durability.
The mattress contours around the spots of heavy pressure, leaving the rest of the surface undisturbed.
It prevents any motion transfer and eliminates partner disturbance. 👩❤️👨
The Sleepycat mattress is protected with a removable viscose-knit fabric top cover, keeping you cool all night long.
However, you need to wash the zipper cover by hand.
The Sleepycat Original mattress comes with free delivery and returns, a 30-night sleep trial period, and a 10-year warranty.
| Sleepycat Original Mattress | |
| Composition: | Gel memory foam |
| Firmness level: | Firm |
| Height: | 15.2 cm (6 inches) |
| Trial period: | 30 days |
| Guarantee: | 10 years |
| What makes this mattress special? | Low motion transfer makes for zero partner disturbance |
Duroflex Orthopaedic Certified Mattress
It is a dual-side quilted mattress and is best for king-size, queen-size, and double-size beds.
All about the Duroflex Back Magic
Are you looking for a higher degree of back support?
If yes, then Duroflex back magic coir foam mattress is a great option for you.
We love its firmness and thickness, which is specially optimised for better sleep. ❤️
This Duroflex coir mattress is made of high-density coir and rebounded foam that will relax your muscles and offer great back support.
Also, it has a 5-zoned orthopaedic layer, making it the best choice for people with lower or upper back pain [1] issues. 👌
The dense coir layer helps with effective air circulation, which makes this mattress best for all seasons, including summer and winter.
Moreover, the outer quilted fabric of this coir mattress is well-stitched and feels luxurious while sleeping. 🛌🏻
You will also get seven years warranty from the company on this coir bonded foam mattress.
Pros
This coir mattress is available in many size options |
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Its quilted outer fabric gives a luxurious feel |
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The mattress is certified by the national health academy |
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This coir bonded mattress gives the best back support |
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The company offers decent customer support service |
Cons
It comes with limited colour options |
What is a back sleeper?
People tend to sleep in a variety of positions.
Some sleep positions are great for body posture, while others might cause health concerns. 😲
Back sleepers are people who sleep on their back, evenly distributing the pressure across their bodies and preventing any pressure build-up.
There are different types of back sleeping positions.
The sleepy soldier, for example, is one where your arms are straight down by your side like you are standing in attention.
It is one of the best positions to sleep in, as it allows your back and neck to be in proper alignment with the rest of your body.
The shooting star is another common back sleeping position where you stretch your legs out and extend your arms above your head. 🌠
This position looks like a starfish on land.
The shooting star position can help reduce acid reflux.
How does sleeping on your back affect your health?
How you sleep plays a direct role in your everyday health. 🩺
While getting comfortable when you sleep is essential, it is also necessary to understand the health benefits and the disadvantages of sleeping in a particular position.
Just like side sleeping, the benefits and disadvantages of back sleeping vary depending on the placement of your arms and other body parts.
Advantages of sleeping on your back
While back sleeping is one of the healthiest positions to sleep in, it is only preferred by 10% of people.
Most prefer sleeping in a foetal position, as they find sleeping on their back a little uncomfortable. 🤔
This preference is usually because of the user's mattress type and pillow placement.
Here are a few health advantages of sleeping on your back. 👇
Reduces heartburn
Sleeping straight on your back, with your hands on the side, is the best position if you suffer from heartburn. ❤️
It keeps your stomach a little lower than your oesophagus, making sure the acid does not crawl up.
Place a pillow under your head to elevate your throat as it stops the food or acid from moving up your digestive tract. 🍗
Reduces neck pain
Sleeping on your back helps keep your neck aligned with the rest of your body. 🦴
It maintains your spine’s natural curves and ensures no excess pressure is placed on your neck.
With the proper pillow support, you can keep your neck and spine in a neutral position all night long.
This positioning reduces pain in your neck and surrounding areas. 😌
Puts less pressure on your organs
When you sleep flat on your back, all your internal organs are in their natural position.
They are not cramped up or overlapping each other. 🥳
When you sleep on your back, you put much less pressure on your internal organs and ensure that they are working correctly all night long.
You should make sure that you are not using too many pillows, as this may disrupt the neutral position of your spine.
Prevents shoulder stress
When you sleep on your side, you might experience a lot of pressure and pain in one of your shoulders. 😨
Sleeping on your back will keep your shoulders aligned to your spine and will not add any excess stress on them.
Getting a new mattress with the perfect firmness and support is also necessary to prevent shoulder stress. 👌
Disadvantages of sleeping on your back
Like all other sleeping positions, sleeping on your back may also have a few disadvantages.
Sleep apnea
Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder that occurs when your breathing gets disrupted while asleep.
Sleeping on your back is not the best position when you suffer from this disorder. 🙅♀️
Back sleeping can force your chin upward, obstruct your air pathway, and disrupt your breathing.
However, if you still want to sleep on your back, you need to make sure that your chin always points up while you are asleep.
The proper pillow placement can help you achieve that. 🙌
Lower back pain
Sleeping on your back with the wrong mattress can stress your lower back and give you bad pains. 😩
Without a firm mattress, your hips are likely to sink in and arch your lower back, causing pain.
By using a medium-firm mattress, you will be able to keep your neck, shoulders, and hips in neutral alignment.
The Wakefit Orthopaedic Memory Foam mattress gives you a medium-firm feel and aligns your entire body with your spine.
It also relieves any soreness or pressure.
Choosing the right mattress for back sleepers
Sleeping on your back is one of the healthiest positions and offers numerous health advantages.
If you are suffering from lower back pain, it’s time you change your mattress. ⏰
The right mattress will reduce all the drawbacks you might face while sleeping on your back.
Here are a few tips that you should consider before choosing a new mattress for yourself.
Choose a mattress with back support
If you prefer sleeping on your back, you need to ensure that your mattress offers adequate back support.
With the proper back support, you can avoid back pain and muscle soreness in the morning.
A good mattress offers support to the natural curves of your spine. 🌊
Try to find a mattress that would decompress your spine, neck, hips, and shoulders.
This decompressing reduces any painful pressure and prepares your body for a comfortable and healing sleep. 👍
A medium-soft to medium-firm mattress will provide extra back pain relief and support your spine.
The Sleep Company’s Smart Luxe mattress is an excellent option, offering proper back support to relieve your pressure points.
Focus on contouring levels
Contouring refers to the way your mattress conforms to the shape of your body.
Different mattresses have different contouring levels.
A proper contouring level can support the back sleeper’s spinal alignment while relieving pressure points.
A memory foam mattress provides the most responsive contouring support. 🤗
The Wakefit Orthopaedic mattress is perfect for this and adjusts to your unique sleeping position.
The mattress offers both support and sinkage.
Ensure pressure relief and even distribution
When a mattress contours your body perfectly, it distributes your weight more evenly.
Even weight distribution across the mattress can take the pressure off your heavier body parts, like the shoulders and hips. ☁️
Even though back sleepers do not suffer from sharp pressure points, you may still prefer a mattress that cradles your shoulders and hips.
It would help if you always looked for a mattress that evenly distributes your body weight across the surface.
Even pressure distribution greatly benefits people who suffer from daily muscle pains. 💪
The Sleepycat's gel memory foam mattress relieves pressure from your lower back and hips, making sure to not move your body out of its natural position.
Consider the best mattress firmness for back sleepers
When we talk about comfort, it relates to how soft or firm your mattress feels.
After picking a mattress with optimum back support and a good contouring level, the last thing on your checklist is its firmness level.
Different mattresses offer different firmness levels.
While deciding on a firmness level is a personal preference, you can also select based on your preferred sleeping position and body weight. ⚖️
Firmness for back sleepers
If you sleep on your back, we recommend a slightly firmer mattress.
On our Sleep Hero firmness scale, where 1 is the softest and 10 is the firmest, this would be any mattress with an average firmness of about 7 to 9. 📏
A medium-firm mattress will allow your spine to align correctly.
The Wakefit Orthopaedic mattress gives you a medium-firm feel.
It offers varying support layers and comfort to every part of your body.
Consider your body weight
Weight plays a significant role in deciding whether your mattress would be comfortable while sleeping or not. ⚖️
It would be best to choose your mattress depending on your body type.
The more you weigh, the more force is exerted on your body's pressure points when you lay down.
It means that a lighter person might feel pushed up on a firm mattress, whereas a heavier person may sink very low into a softer mattress.
If you are on the heavier side (weighing more than 90 kg), you should select a firmer mattress.
We recommend a mattress that lies between 8 to 10 on our Sleep Hero firmness scale for our heavier back sleepers.
The Duroflex Back Magic mattress is a good option.
Types of mattress materials for back sleepers
Back sleepers generally shouldn’t choose a soft mattress. 🧸
They need it firm enough to align their neck, shoulder, and spine suitably. 🧱
Any mattress that offers proper contouring and even distribution of your body weight is perfect for sleeping on your back.
Here are a few different types of mattress materials that you can try out. 👇
Memory foam mattresses
Memory foam mattresses mould easily around your body shape while responding to heat and pressure. 🥵
When pressure is relieved, an imprint remains on your mattress for a few seconds, and then it slowly bounces back.
This is called the memory effect.
These mattresses provide good support while sleeping and are recommended for people who suffer from lower back pain.
Foam beds are also resistant to bacteria and allergens, making them perfect for people with allergies and sensitive skin. 🦠
The world-renowned Tempur-pedic mattresses are made of memory foam.
Latex foam mattresses
Latex foam mattresses are made from plant-based materials and are preferred by eco-conscious people. 🌱
These eco-friendly mattresses provide a comfortable surface that keeps the pressure off your shoulders and hips while cushioning your joints.
Latex mattresses help you maintain a proper sleeping alignment, making them popular among back sleepers.
This sustainable material suppresses motion and allows you and your partner to get a comfortable and healing sleep.
Innerspring mattresses
Innerspring mattresses use a steel coil support system to provide back support to sleepers.
The coils can either be connected or individually wrapped.
Individually wrapped coil mattresses are called pocket spring mattresses. 🌀
If you share a bed with your partner, you should opt for an individually wrapped coil mattress to suppress any movement.
These pocketed coils have padding on the top that provides comfort, softness, and additional support.
The more coils your mattress has, the better support it provides. 👍
Hybrid mattresses
Hybrid mattresses combine both memory foam and coil technology into one comfortable product.
They create a surface that offers excellent durability, comfort, and support.
These mattresses make sure that the sleeper experiences less motion transfer at night. 🌌
They are topped with foam and are resistant to allergens and dust mites.
Best pillows for back sleepers
In addition to choosing the right mattress, you must select the perfect pillow type and height to ensure the proper alignment of your neck with your spine. 🙌
Generally, back sleepers prefer pillows with higher height than stomach sleepers and lower height than side sleepers.
The ideal pillow for people sleeping on their back promotes spinal alignment, rather than allowing the head to sink in too deeply or arching your neck upward too much.
As a back sleeper, there are particular pillow features that you should consider while shopping. 🛒
Best pillow firmness level for back sleepers
The firmness level of your pillow will determine how much it will flatten out in response to your weight.
There are different firmness options available on the market.
Most people sleeping on their back prefer a medium-firm pillow.
It would help if you had a pillow that would hold your head and neck in place rather than allow them to sink down.
Pillows made of polyfoam, memory foam, or latex ensure a balance of comfort and support.
We’ve recommended a few of our favourite pillows further down. 👇
Pressure relief
Your pillow should provide pressure relief by evenly distributing your weight.
Suppose a pillow is too thick or firm.
In that case, it will cause multiple pressure points in your neck, making your sleep uncomfortable. 😬
A memory foam pillow is recommended for back sleepers to ensure pressure relief around your neck and shoulders.
We have recommended some of our favourite pillows that offer pressure relief and enough support for back sleepers.
Our favourite pillows for back sleepers:
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Memory Foam PillowPrice from ₹1,169The Sleepyhead Memory Foam Pillow, infused with a cooling gel, has been designed to provide the right support for your neck and head for a truly comfortable sleep.The Sleepyhead Memory Foam Pillow, infused with a cooling gel, has been designed to provide the right support for your neck and head for a truly comfortable sleep.Price from ₹ 1,169 -
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Snuggle PillowPrice from ₹2,500The MM Foam Snuggle Pillow is a 100% natural latex pillow, supporting your head and neck for healthy, well-ventilated sleep.The MM Foam Snuggle Pillow is a 100% natural latex pillow, supporting your head and neck for healthy, well-ventilated sleep.Price from ₹ 2,500
Best mattress toppers for back sleepers
A good mattress topper can further help alleviate your lower back or hip pain.
A mattress topper offers an extra comfortable layer that sits on top of your mattress. 🤗
Mattress toppers are made to conform to your body and relieve all your pressure points.
You’ll need a topper if your mattress is too firm and cannot provide good contouring.
Based upon your needs and preferences, you can choose different types of toppers, like quilted or latex foam mattress toppers.
They help even out strain from sensitive areas, including your shoulders, lumbar region, and hips. 🤩
We have recommended some of our favourite mattress toppers that offer contouring and pressure relief for back sleepers.
Our favourite mattress toppers:
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Microfiber Mattress TopperPrice from ₹1,549 ₹ (4,900 )The Rajasthan Crafts microfiber mattress topper features baffle box stitch so that the soft microfibre filling can stay in place to offer cosy, comfortable support.The Rajasthan Crafts microfiber mattress topper features baffle box stitch so that the soft microfibre filling can stay in place to offer cosy, comfortable support.Price from ₹ 1,549 (₹ 4,900 ) -
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Cooling Memory Foam Mattress TopperPrice from ₹3,293The Amazon Basics Cooling Gel-Infused Memory Foam Mattress Topper features a temperature regulating gel to keep you cool and comfortable all night long, all while offering exceptional full-body support.The Amazon Basics Cooling Gel-Infused Memory Foam Mattress Topper features a temperature regulating gel to keep you cool and comfortable all night long, all while offering exceptional full-body support.Price from ₹ 3,293
What’s the best mattress for back sleepers?
Back sleepers need a mattress that aligns their neck, shoulders, spine, and hips neutrally.
The mattress should also relieve all your pressure points so that your muscles are not sore in the morning. 🌅
Hybrid memory foam mattresses are one of the best options for back sleepers, cushioning your joints and relieving pressure on heavier areas of the body.
Along with firmness, you should also ensure that your new mattress is correct for your body weight.
A heavyweight person will need a firmer mattress than a lightweight one.
Luckily, all our recommended top picks meet these criteria.
These mattresses will ensure that you get a comfortable and healing sleep all night long. 👌
Table of Content
Our favourite Indian mattresses for back sleepers:
How does sleeping on your back affect your health?
Choosing the right mattress for back sleepers
Types of mattress materials for back sleepers
Best pillows for back sleepers
Best mattress toppers for back sleepers
FAQ
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Is it good to sleep on your back?
Sleeping on your back is one of the healthiest sleeping positions.
It keeps your neck and spine in a neutral position, reduces the chance of heartburn, and gives you relief if you suffer from chronic back pain.
When sleeping on your back, you are less likely to develop neck pain.
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Should back sleepers use a pillow?
You should always use a pillow while sleeping on your back.
It helps to maintain proper spinal alignment while you sleep.
It allows the spine to settle into place and puts much less pressure on your neck.
When sleeping on your back, you should use a medium loft pillow measuring between 7.6 and 12.7 cm (3 and 5 inches).
It will hold your neck in place rather than allowing your head to sink down too much.
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How many pillows should back sleepers use?
You should use one or two pillows at most while sleeping on your back.
Sleeping without a pillow is not recommended as it may cause acid reflux, snoring, or even sleep apnea.
However, sleeping with too many pillows can put unnecessary pressure on your neck, resulting in a sore neck or shoulder pain.
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