Avoid These Pillow Mistakes: Learn How to Choose and Use the Perfect Pillow

Learn How To Use Your Pillow & What is the Best Pillow? This is a very common question I get in clinical practice and it's a very important one. There is no one pillow that is perfect for everyone. In this video, Dr. Jon Saunders will show you how to use a pillow - the most popular pillows will be used to show you the proper way to use your pillow to minimize the stresses on your spine.

I will also discuss how to use a pillow for side sleepers, back sleepers, and stomach sleepers.

Using your pillow correctly will help you manage your neck pain, headaches, low back pain, cervical vertigo, and many other spinal related problems. If you have GERD or Sleep Apnea, there is a pillow to use that can still help reduce spinal related pain. You will learn how to sleep with sciatica or a disc bulge.

If you want to learn what the best pillow to use for neck pain, vertigo, sciatica, low back pain, headaches, posture, forward head posture, neck hump, and many other conditions, this video will give you the understanding to give you a better sleep, less pain and better posture!

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📖CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro.
1:14 Regular Pillow: pillows are for your neck not head!
3:44 Neck Hump and Pillow Position
4:38 Cervical Pillow – Double Curved Pillow
6:24 Side Sleeper? TIP for those who sleep on their sides
6:45 Roll or Cylinder Pillow
7:44 Rolled Towel
8:25 Wedge Pillow – GERD, Sleep Apnea, Cervical Vertigo, Neck and Low Back Pain?
10:18 Wedge Pillow for lumbar disc bulge?
11:09 Outro.
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Dr. Jon Saunders, B.Kin., D.C.
Chiropractic on Eagle
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[spijpsk]

Things like this should be taught in schools honestly. Daily habits, routines, simple things that has great impact in life.

[galc]

This is going to sound really dumb, but: at over 40, I always told my friends “someone needs to teach me how to use a pillow”…
Your simple line about “needs to support the neck, not the head” and where to place the pillow, GOLD! thank you 🙏

[cassiegraves]

I’m 32, often wake up in pain and couldn’t ever work out how to make a pillow work for me. Tried multiple pillows, no pillow, flat pillows, fat pillows… I was just using it wrong! Since I found this a few weeks ago I haven’t woken up with pain again. Thank you for this video!

[grimesmarie]

Huge thank you! I have long term back and neck issues (35 years). It only hurts every morning after sleeping in a bed (tried every mattress known to man) and after long walks or certain chores. I applied the tips given here and I can't believe the outcome! No exaggeration, my pain was decreased by 80% for the 1st time in 35 years! Thank you!!

[jokabomo]

Dr Jon, you are a Godsend. I've been struggling with BPPV for years, recently severely. I tried Epley & with better success, half somersault, but never had complete recovery. Last night I switched my pillow position to lengthwise down my back. Game changer and answer to my literal prayers!!! Today was the first time waking without the room spinning. Thank you for your amazing help and dedication. Your videos make sense and are transformational!! You've manage to solve what my doctor and chiropractor could not.

[Joerpg]

Fantastic videos. I do all the problems resulting in forward posture and this has given me tips and reminded me of the importance of keeping this and your exercises consistently. I have hyper mobile shoulders or double jointed which causes my shoulders to fan out and shoulders go up.

[sharonmckay]

Thank you for explaining the reason there is a low and high side on contour pillows.
I've used the low side under my neck whilst sleeping on my back but now understand why switching to the high side at the front is better for shoulder/side sleeping. Thanks again 👍

[charcushman]

I started getting cricks in my neck when I was 18. Get off your pillow was the Chiropractors suggestion. This was 54 years ago. I still normally only use on a pillow to sit up with and when I cant breathe from a cold or allergy. It was the best suggestion I received. I wish I could go back and thank him.

[ticks]

You raised sth that I noticed at 6:26 about my personal bad habit! I only assumed it makes my neck worse but u just confirmed it! Thanks Doc! Still on my way to get rid of my sore neck due to poor posture but all your exercises helps.

[aurorarosacia]

I just bought a cervical pillow and now I know why there’s low and high edges and when to use them. Thank you for this video.

[davidjohn]

Mentioning the benefits of proper head-neck-spine positioning as well as the air-breathing alignment benefits (especially for "no neck" people) re apnea related (breathing) whilst sleeping … I totally minimised or "cured" my so-called "apnea" once I started understanding sleeping positions (what worked for me) and using pillow/s properly … good informative, practical information re this video/demo 👍🏼

[MathMotor]

Best video on YouTube for in depth pillow science!

[diyac]

I came here to learn how to sleep on a pillow. It’s been a lifelong challenge. Great video, thank you!!

[Breathless]

Thank you!! I really needed this video. Appreciate you 🙏

[tomato]

Huge thank you! I've been sleeping with my pillow just supporting my head, but as soon as I turned the pillow length-wise it felt a lot more comfortable. I even noticed that I'd had some pain in my neck from the pillow pushing my head toward my neck before, but the pain/strain went away in a bit :)

[wlygzer]

Thanks, very informative 👍 and on time, I've been looking for the right pillow.

[nancyscott-smith]

Thank you so much and I must say I love my contour pillow. I used to have chronic headaches and since I started using this pillow I rarely have a headache. Yay!!

[BriannaBurrows]

I love my tri core cervical pillow! It’s great for starting on my back and then going on my side. I tell everyone about it. It’s life changing.

[AdenaKaiba]

Thank you so much for this video! I'm about to try a cervical pillow and all these tips are so helpful to know how to use it properly!

[Toff-Gaming]

This showed up in my feed probably because I was shopping for pillow but now I understand it so much. Thank you for this information.