Spinal Stenosis

November 10th, 2008

Spinal Stenosis

Symptoms and Treatment of Lumbar Stenosis

Spinal stenosis is caused by narrowing in the openings of the vertebrae that nerves pass through. When the narrowed area is in the lower back, it is called lumbar stenosis. The symptoms of lumbar stenosis are related to the compression of nerves that go to the hips, legs and feet.

Symptoms

The most common symptom of lumbar stenosis is pain in the legs. Sometimes people will have what’s called “neurogenic claudication” pain, which is heaviness, aching or cramping in your legs when you walk. Claudication pain gets worse if you walk and is relieved by sitting or lying down. It can be caused by impaired circulation to the legs (vascular claudication) or by lumbar stenosis. The claudication pain of lumbar stenosis is usually also relieved by bending over or stooping down.

People with lumbar stenosis can also have “radicular pain,” or pain that radiates down one or both legs, also called sciatica. Other sensory abnormalities caused by lumbar stenosis are tingling, heaviness or numbness in your toes, feet and legs. Motor abnormalities include weakness in one or both legs and difficulty walking.

Rarely, severe lumbar stenosis can cause “caudae equinae syndrome.” The spinal cord itself ends in the lower back and splits into several nerves. Those nerves continue down the spinal canal and exit in pairs between the vertebrae. Lumbar stenosis that compresses the caudae equinae can cause “saddle anesthesia,” or loss of feeling where you would sit on a saddle, bladder or fecal incontinence and sexual dysfunction. It is considered a medical emergency because only a very large disc herniation or other serious problem can cause caudae equinae syndrome.

Treatment

Treatment modalities for lumbar stenosis can be divided into three categories: conservative, alternative and surgical.

Conservative treatment includes anti-inflammatory medications, muscle relaxers and pain medications. Physical therapy is often helpful in improving pain and mobility. If the pain continues, you could receive cortisone or anesthetic injections. Anesthetic injections, or nerve blocks, usually give you some relief from the pain. Cortisone injections seem to be less effective.

Chiropractic, massage and acupuncture are alternative treatments. They provide excellent pain relief for some people.

Surgery is usually a laminectomy, or removal of some of the bone around the spinal canal, to make a larger opening for the nerves. Sometimes a spinal fusion is done, too, to stabilize the vertebrae and keep them from slipping and compressing the nerves.

Many people, especially those who are older or who have other health risks, benefit from minimally invasive surgery for lumbar stenosis. The surgeon views the lumbar spine with a microscopic endoscope and uses microsurgical techniques to make specific repairs. Endoscopic surgery is less invasive and better tolerated than traditional surgery.

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Substance Abuse

October 20th, 2008

Substance Abuse

Drug Rehab and Substance Abuse Treatment for Young Adults

By David Tang

For those who have never had substance abuse problems or family members who are addicts, consider yourselves lucky. Millions of families face the dark cloud of drug addiction via someone they love on a daily basis. The decision to get treatment, if not made by the addict, may very well have to be made by their loved ones. After all, the scope of drug addiction can have a reverberating effect on everyone who surrounds the addict. Consequences, if not dealt with directly, are apt to double in severity later on. However, once the decision to seek addiction treatment is arrived at, all parties involved can take comfort in knowing that their dedication will not go unrewarded. The path of healing has been laid out.

Good drug rehab centers have an array of resources that facilitate not only physical recovery from addiction–but the emotional and mental healing that is necessary as well. Some addicts complete drug rehab successfully, and then find that they’re unable to function in civil society because they lack the skills needed to lead a sober life. Some treatment centers emphasize job and education continuation so that addicts will return to these environments with ease once they leave the program. Alcohol and drug rehab centers are also effective in that they come complete with a support system, not only of medical and psychological specialists, but of peers who are recovering right along with you. Having these support systems will help recovering addicts learn how put themselves in healthy and sober social circles, rather than returning to the groups of people who enabled them before they sought treatment.

Once substance abuse reaches a certain degree of severity, you can be sure that there will be little chance of recovery if the addict is left to go it alone. The road to recovery has some treacherous terrain that can prove impassable if there’s no help along the way. Once an addict can make the decision to seek treatment and muster the dedication to follow it through, the healing process will come much more easily. The support system that will be provided by a good drug rehab facility will be leaps and bounds better than anything you’ll find on the streets. Extreme addiction makes the addict’s complete removal from their daily life absolutely necessary. Once that tough decision is reached, the addict can be certain that they are in good hands to the very end.

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Shoulder Surgery

October 8th, 2008

Shoulder Surgery

Shoulder Tendonitis Surgery - Rotator Cuff Tendonitis

By Steve Madigan

First let’s find out what shoulder tendonitis or rotator cuff tendonitis is? There are several other names that this can be called. Some are known as tennis shoulder, pitcher’s shoulder and even a shoulder impingement. These are all common names for a very similar problem.

So what is it? Shoulder tendonitis or rotator cuff tendonitis is the inflammation and can be an irritation and swelling of the tendons of the shoulder. The shoulder joint is a ball and socket type joint. The top part of the arm bone (humerus) forms a joint with the shoulder blade (scapula). The rotator cuff holds the head of the humerus into the scapula.

What is the most common cause of rotator cuff tendonitis?

A lot of the time the problem occurs with sports. Inflammation of the tendons of the shoulder muscles occur in sports using the arm being moved over the head repeatedly. Such sports are tennis, baseball (pitching mainly) swimming and even lifting weights over the head. What happens sometimes is you get the inflammation or injury and can cause the tendons of the rotator cuff to tear. Sometimes this occurs in people over 40 years of age.

Some of the symptoms

Pain when the arm is moved
Arm is weak when rising over your head
Pain in shoulder at night, especially when lying on the affected shoulder.
Pain in arm when performing overhead activities

How to find out if you have shoulder tendonitis

X-ray’s or MRI. X-ray’s can show a burn spur. The MRI can show the inflammation in the rotator cuff. There could also be a tear in the rotator cuff and the MRI will show this.

Shoulder Tendonitis Surgery

Before shoulder tendonitis surgery, you should try physical therapy to strengthen the muscles of the rotator cuff. If the pain is too great to start physical therapy a steroid injection (cortisone) may reduce pain and inflammation enough to start effective therapy.

If there is a tear in the rotator cuff or therapy has not helped and symptoms persist, shoulder surgery may be necessary. For most shoulder surgery, this can be accomplished with arthroscopic surgery. This type of surgery is effective in removing the bone spur and inflamed tissue around the shoulder.

You can also treat small tears with shoulder tendonitis surgery and arthroscopic surgery. There are even some new techniques that allow even large tears to be repaired with arthroscopic surgery. Now there are some large tears that are going to require open surgery to repair the torn tendon.

Shoulder Tendonitis Surgery Expectations

Once the shoulder tendonitis surgery is completed and the bone spur or tear has been repaired arthroscopic ally, you can expect the use of the shoulder to pre-injury levels. The activities that you performed prior to the injury should be able to perform them once again.

There are a couple of factors in determining the success of the shoulder tendonitis surgery. People with tears of their rotator cuff that have had the shoulder tendonitis surgery (arthroscopic) will do well. It will depend upon the size and the duration of the tear. The age of the patient will also have a bearing on the outcome and what the pre-injury level of function was.

So there are some things that you can do and the success of the shoulder tendonitis surgery should have a successful outcome in most cases. In another article I will discuss the rehabilitation of shoulder tendonitis surgery.

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Mole Removal

October 8th, 2008

Mole Removal

How to Remove Your Moles

By Dr Anne

Moles can be both ugly and dangerous (due to higher risk of cancer), and so sometimes it is best to remove them.

But there are many ways removing moles can be done unsafely, and some of the most common methods of mole removal can leave scars that are worse than the mole in the first place.

Moles are actually technically called melanocytic naevus. They are dark and sometimes raised spots on the surface of the skin, and can appear or disappear at ANY time of your life.

Consider how you want your moles to be removed. Doctors will normally remove moles with a little knife and that is probably the cheapest way to do it, but it can really leave an ugly scar. Having your moles removed with a laser is pretty expensive but it usually won’t leave any noticeable marks.

Cut a small tube from a plain potato and put on the wart or mole. Cover it with the same tape or bandage and leave for 4-7 days. As the potato decomposes, the wart or mole will turn black and fall off.

Observe the size and color of your moles. Visit a dermatologist or a surgeon to inquire whether the moles need surgical treatment. If yes, get them removed professionally. If no, take steps to remove them naturally.

Prepare a list of items useful in removing moles naturally. Cauliflowers, garlic, pineapple, castor oil, honey, fig stems and hot water with vinegar are considered effective in mole removal. Select only one from the mentioned items.

Although laser has been tried for moles, it is not the method of choice for most deep moles because the laser light doesn’t penetrate deeply enough. Typically, the doctor or dermatologist (a skin specialist) may choose excision with or without stitches depending on the depth of the mole and the type of cosmetic outcome desired.

Wash the moles with hot water five to six times a day. Let your skin dry, then apply cider vinegar to your moles with cotton swabs. Let it sit for 10 minutes, then rinse with cool water.

The most common method of mole removal is actually simple surgery by a doctor using a scalpel. This can be both painful and leave a scar. Other surgical procedures are freezing and burning, which again, are both painful and leave scarring.

You now have the ability to eradicate moles in just a few days. Then, watch them heal right before your eyes revealing fresh, beautiful skin. This simple process will change your life, both physically and mentally. You will have a mole free body in no time without the hassle of doctor’s visits and the outrageous office fees.

Apply the extract of the milkweed herb on the mole and leave it overnight. Do this home remedy for a week. You will see the mole is on the verge of disappearing. This is very effective home remedy for moles

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Bursitis

October 7th, 2008

Bursitis

Bursitis Information and Treatment

By Juliet Cohen

Bursitis is inflammation of a bursa. A bursa is a small fluid-filled sac that works as a skiding surface to descrease friction between tissues of the body. Bursitis chance when a bursa becomes inflamed. When inflammation happens, movement or pressure is painful. Bursitis frequently affects the joints in your shoulders, elbows or hips. Elbows and knees are the most generally affected because they are inactived upon more than various parts of the body with bursae and they also get the most repetitive use. Bursitis is more common in adults, exceptionally in those over 40 years of age. Scoliosis can also be a effect of bursitis of the shoulders.

Shoulder bursitis is more usually due to overexploite of the shoulder joint and muscles. Predisposing contributed risk factors of bursitis include diabetes, alcoholism, steroid therapy, uremia, trauma, and skin disease. Symptoms of bursitis pain and diminish swelling. The bursae sacs may swell, frequently making motion difficult. The most generally affected joints are the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, knee, and foot. Medications such as aspirin or ibuprofen may be helpful to reduce inflammation. NSAIDs are used as anti-inflammatory agents and for pain relief.

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) such as ibuprofen to diminish the swelling and pain. Ibuprofen is not advised to those with asthma. Atypical mycobacteria intermittingly may be successfully treated with moderate drainage and appropriate antibiotics. Corticosteroids are often used because they work quickly to decrease the inflammation and pain. Steroids are also one of the safest treatment methods and can be injected directly at the site of injury. Physical therapy is other treatment choice that is frequently used, especially for a frozen shoulder.

Bursitis can be prevented with a gradual buildup in activities, with restricted force and limited repetitions. Ice is a very effective anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving agent. Applying ice to diminish swelling. Stretching before you exercise, strengthening your muscles and resting when you do repetitive tasks might help obviate bursitis. Surgical drainage and removal of the infected bursa sac (bursectomy) may also be essential some cases of bursitis. Proper strengthening technique can assist avoid bursitis by using your muscles in a unharmed, more effective manner. For example, patients with shoulder bursitis can learn methods to move the shoulder that will not cause inflammation.

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Bunion Treatments

October 2nd, 2008

Bunion Treatment


What is a Bunion?

By peter hutch

The common bunion is a localized area of enlargement of the inner portion of the joint at the base of the big toe. The enlargement actually represents additional bone formation, often in combination with a misalignment of the big toe. The normal position of the big toe (straight forward) becomes outward-directed toward the smaller toes. The enlarged joint at the base of the big toe (the first metatarsophalangeal joint) can become inflamed with redness, tenderness, and pain. A small fluid-filled sac (bursa) adjacent to the joint can also become inflamed (bursitis) leading to additional swelling, redness, and pain.

Bunions are often described as a bump on the side of the big toe. But a bunion is more than that. The visible bump actually reflects changes in the bony framework of the front part of the foot. With a bunion, the big toe leans toward the second toe, rather than pointing straight ahead. This throws the bones out of alignment, producing the bunion’s “bump.”

Most bunions are treatable without surgery. Prevention is always best. To minimize your chances of developing a bunion, never force your foot into a shoe that doesn’t fit. Choose shoes that conform to the shape of your feet. Go for shoes with wide insteps, broad toes and soft soles. Avoid shoes that are short, tight or sharply pointed, and those with heels higher than 2 1/4 inches. If you already have a bunion, wear shoes that are roomy enough to not put pressure on it. This should relieve most of your pain. You may want to have your shoes stretched out professionally. You may also try protective pads to cushion the painful area.

Bunions are caused by a biomechanical abnormality, where certain tendons, ligaments, and supportive structures of the first metatarsal are no longer functioning correctly. This biomechanical abnormality may be caused by a variety of conditions intrinsic to the structure of the foot–such as flat feet, excessive ligamentous flexibility, abnormal bone structure, and certain neurological conditions. These factors are often considered genetic. Although no experts are convinced that poor fitting footwear is the main cause of bunion formation , other sources concede only that footwear exacerbates the problem caused by the original genetic deformity.

Tight fitting shoes are thought to be the cause of bunions in about 90% of patients. Shoes such as high heels are particularly damaging to the toes. These shoes have a sloping foot piece and a narrow toe box. The slope causes the front of the foot to be pushed with force into the narrow toe box. The narrow toe box causes the toes to become squeezed together. Depending on factors such as duration of wearing constraining footwear, skeletal maturity, and individual factors, the toes can become permanently adapted to the new position and lead to the formation of a bunion.

Bunions can occur for a number of reasons, but a common cause is wearing shoes that fit too tightly. They can also develop as a result of inherited structural defect, injury, stress on your foot or another medical condition. A bunion is an abnormal, bony bump that forms on the joint at the base of your big toe. Your big toe joint becomes enlarged, forcing the toe to crowd against your other toes. This puts pressure on your big toe joint, pushing it outward beyond the normal profile of your foot, and resulting in pain. Bunions can also occur on the joint of your little toe (bunionette).

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Chemical Peel

September 18th, 2008

Chemical Peel

Peeling Your Way To A Younger You

By louise forrest

Years of sun damage, elemental damage, and simple aging can wreck havoc on your skin. You look in the mirror and you can see it all in your face. The fine lines, forming wrinkles, discolored areas, skin that just looks a little less healthy than it should.

But after so long, what can you do but continue taking care of your face? You have top of the line moisturizers, gentle exfoliators, firming creams, and other products that do what they can for the beauty of your skin.

What you may have neglected are the professional options out there. Anybody who is anybody gets botox these days, but you are not exactly fond of freezing your face into one expression. You could get microdermabrasion, though that is a very good option, it will take several visits to gets really fabulous results. Another option, if you feel like going all out on your facial, is to try a chemical peel.

A chemical peel uses specific chemical solutions and applies them to your skin. These chemical solutions can vary, the main types being peels that contain alpha hydroxy acid (or AHA), beta hydroxy acid (BHA), tricholoracetic acid (TCA), or phenol. Alpha hydroxy acid is also known as glycolic acid and beta hydroxy acid as salicylic acid.

These chemicals each have their own specific strength and can result in different types of peels. You can get a superficial peel, which is a light or micro peel, or medium to deep peels. Usually the use of AHA and BHA will apply with the superficial peels while TCA and phenol will be used for deeper peels.

The solutions placed on your skin, depending upon the type and how deep you want the peel to be, will actually dissolve the top layers of your skin. Superficial peels are usually the best, as you can do several with a measured amount of time to get good results. There are few risks and you may only experience redness, swelling, and skin sensitivity.

However, as you get deeper peels, the complications can be a little more severe. Medium and deep peels can possibly leave you with scarring, infection, and skin color changes. These color changes can be temporary, but they may also become permanent.

A chemical peel is meant to help restore your beauty by giving your face major exfoliation, removing skin surface cells that have been damaged by the sun, reducing wrinkles, skin discolorations, and helping your overall skin texture, and aiding in the rebuilding of collagen, which helps to prevent future wrinkles. A chemical peel can also remove blackheads and give you a temporary reprieve if you have oily skin by reducing the amount of oil your skin is producing.

If you are looking for an improvement for beauty, a chemical peel may sound pretty good, but you need to know all the facts before getting one. As chemical peels to have helpful benefits, there are a few things that even a chemical peel cannot change. You need to be aware of these things before you think a chemical peel will solve all your beauty problems.

If you have the appearance of blood vessels beneath your skin, a chemical peel is definitely not going to erase them or reduce their appearance. Likewise, if you have large pores, a chemical peel is not going to make them smaller or make them look smaller. When trying to rid yourself of skin discoloration, those with darker skin will have fewer results. If you have certain types of scarring, a chemical peel may not be able to fully remove them.

A chemical peel is not a facelift. It is simply a way of removing skin layers to help promote healthy skin growth underneath. This healthy skin then takes the place of your old skin layers, leaving you with fewer problems and healthier looking skin.

You will have to be the one to decide whether or not you want to do a chemical peel to help capture some of your past beauty, as a chemical peel can cost you anywhere from $500 to over $2,000.

Choose wisely in your options. True beauty should not have to come at the expense of potentially harming your skin or your wallet.

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Home Health Care Services

July 17th, 2008

Home Health Care

Home Healthcare Service Delivery Options

By Robert Parker

There really is nothing that is more unpleasant for many people than having to spend time in a hospital. Hospitals today are over crowded, but aside from that issue, being away from home while dealing with an illness or while recuperating is thought to have adverse effects on the recovery process.

One way in which the burden upon hospitals is being alleviated and which also offers a pleasant alternative is home healthcare. Previously home healthcare delivery was restricted to a few individuals and only in very specific circumstances, but as hospital administrators and governments began to recognize the many benefits both to patients and taxpayers, the options started increasing. Let’s take a look at some of the delivery options available from a home healthcare service.

Nursing Services

Perhaps the most developed area in home healthcare options is nursing services that run the gamut of medical needs, from maternity through to mental health.

While some of the services a home health care nurse can provide are straightforward, others may require a range of specialized equipment. For example, patients on an intravenous treatment will need to have their own machine, which usually includes a walking stand. A nurse would make regular trips to the home to check the function of the machine and the amount of the prescribed dosage within the drip bag. Specialized provisions such as this may have some fees accrued on behalf of the patient for equipment.

Personal and Home Support Services

The needs of the patient who opts for home healthcare will go beyond just health concerns. Often a patient or his caregiver will require assistance in the running of his home. Home healthcare delivery options include allowances for those running or taking care of a household throughout an illness.

These services include relief workers for a personal caregiver. This respite comes in very handy when you are the person in charge of a household in which a patient resides. In this case, you have become the primary caregiver, and even the most dedicated individual will find himself or herself needing a break from time to time. Home healthcare services can provide this relief by scheduling individuals to come into the home and assume the responsibilities of the primary caregiver, allowing that individual to take some time away from the task.

Each of the areas discussed, as well as those which have not been mentioned, include a range of more specific niches within the home healthcare industry. If you do opt for treatment or recuperation from the comfort of home, make sure that you are aware of all the options that a home healthcare service could provide.

Every person is unique and home health services workers understand that health problems affect each person’s independence and family situation differently.

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Affordable Health Insurance

July 17th, 2008

Affordable Health Insurance

Discover How To Find An Affordable Health Insurance

By Fadhrick Pickaso

In the present time and age, reasonably priced health insurance could be a negation. Although not all people consider health insurance, as a necessity, but it should be noted that health insurance is definitely needed. Affordable health insurance is not difficult to. These insurances actually provide enough security and coverage to all kinds of people.

Accordingly, having a genuine health insurance is in fact a necessity. In many cases, a company where you work also offers health insurance to their workers. But in you are not working for a company that gives generous benefits like insurance etc. or if you have your own business or you do not symbolize a company, then you must surely start looking for an affordable health insurance now.

It cannot be denied that everyone would like to have an affordable health insurance. Some people are fortunate enough to work for the organizations that endow with health care and insurance for free. But at the same time there are a large number of people who have to pay the entire or a part of the insurance premium cost from their pockets.

Group health insurance is one option for having an affordable health insurance. In case you are a fresher at certain company, ask them if they cover a group health plan. Generally, the companies are entitled for lower premiums when they employ a group of people, implying that you have to pay less. A number of companies provide HMOs group health insurance plans, where you can have a choice of your doctor from a listing of physicians. Whilst some company have PPOs health insurance plan, where also you have the choice of doctor you wish for, but in case you pick one of the favored physicians, you are likely to get greater benefits.

In large companies, you possibly won’t have any trouble in getting an affordable health insurance. Conversely, it is very expensive for small businesses to give insurance to their employees. Group health insurance may be an alternative for affordable health insurance, but it may also be too pricey for the employees and company. However, There are associations that might help you. You might be able to obtain group health insurance through a trade association or a local chamber of commerce. Such organizations frequently contract group insurance pools, where numerous small businesses set off together to offer affordable health insurance to its employees.

Today, More and more people below the age of 65 are retiring before time. You ought to be 65 to be eligible for government health insurance plan. Certain companies continue to give health insurance as a retirement package to the employees.
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Tempur Pedic Mattress

July 15th, 2008

Tempur Pedic Mattress



My Quest For The Perfect Mattress

By Mike Taylor

It seems to me like everyone I have talked to lately has had the same problem my wife and I did in finding a mattress we both liked so I thought I would write about our experiences.

We had a mattress that was about 15 years old and had that sag in the middle. You know the one where if you lay on your side you’ll roll backwards into each other?

We decided it was time to get a new mattress so we went to our local furniture store and tried several different models from all the top names. After spending so much time “sleeping” on them to the point of the salespeople asking us for our breakfast order we decided on a Simmons Beautyrest and it was promptly delivered to our home.

It was extra firm and you could not feel the other person move around which was definitely a big plus. But, after trying the mattress for several weeks and waking up stiff and sore we felt it was too hard and asked for a replacement.

Since this was a store where we did a lot of business they obliged and we got a Serta Perfect Sleeper pillow top thinking that the extra cushion would help prevent that morning stiffness.

Well, the Serta turned out to be too soft and we never did get used to it. After several months we saw an ad for the Select Comfort Air Bed and I told my wife to” get ready because we’re headed to the mall” where there was a Select Comfort store.

After spending close to an hour trying the bed out and playing with all of the settings we were sold. Now we only had to wait a few weeks for delivery and we would be set and finally able to sleep peacefully.

The mattress came in several boxes and set-up was simple. At last, we were going to sleep comfortably! Well, once again we never did get used to the Select Comfort. Either it was too hard or too soft and it kind of felt like an air mattress that we used to use when we stayed at my sister’s over the holidays so we sent it back. The remote control was kind of neat though.

The re-packing process was pretty difficult and I had to call the company to figure out how to get everything to fit back in the boxes as the main “mattress” was originally vacuum packed into a compact bag and now was much bigger and bulkier.

We went back to our old Serta still longing for a good nights sleep when we finally decided to try the mattress of last resort, the Tempurpedic Memory Foam mattress. I had used a Tempurpedic pillow for years and absolutely loved it but I was put off by the high price of the mattress. We decided that if it worked it would be well worth the money so we ordered one (this was before you could buy them in stores) and were pretty excited when it came.

After a few weeks we noticed we were having slight backaches in the morning so we called the company and a representative said that was common if you slept on your side (which we do) and that it would go away after awhile.

It took some time but eventually the pain did go away and we now love our Tempurpedic! You never have to flip it, dust mites can’t live in it and it lasts for at least 20 years.

I really like it best in the winter as it gets firm when it’s colder and then your body just nestles in nice and cozy as your body heat softens the mattress. In the summertime it’s definitely softer but still much better than any other mattress we have ever slept on.

If you are on a quest like we were for the perfect night’s sleep do yourself a big favor and try the Tempurpedic Memory Foam mattress. Hey, if you don’t like it you can always send it back but I’m guessing you’re going to love it too.

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