| An aching back is a real pain. And yes, when I | | | | other paraphernalia that seems to be required in |
| climbed out of my hammock this morning I did | | | | that environment, including, alas, that old familiar |
| not have any! Another restful night! Another pain | | | | pain in the lower back that seems to be |
| free morning! How does it get any better than | | | | exacerbated by the tossing and turning on Terra |
| this? | | | | firma. This went on and on for years. |
| The back pain thing for me seems to have been | | | | For a person who suffers from back pain, there |
| a culmination of sporting incidents, auto accidents, | | | | are two aspects of sleeping in a bed that seem |
| and construction mishaps, all compounded by | | | | to make the situation worse. Only the most |
| stress. The hammock solution started during a trip | | | | extreme, and extremely expensive, beds do a |
| many years ago up the Amazon River, a murky | | | | creditable job of providing all over support. And |
| humid wonder of a place where we all slept on | | | | virtually all beds create pressure points that |
| deck in ragged old hammocks. We got partial | | | | instigate tossing and turning, tossing and turning |
| relief from the ferocity of the insect world using | | | | which can put unusual pressures on the back, |
| old insect netting jammed up as well as we could | | | | especially when "under cove". While massage can |
| do it and spread over the hammock. Never slept | | | | help the aching back, it wasn't until I set up a |
| better! | | | | hammock that I found relief. I was fortunate to |
| In the course of travel up through Central | | | | find a great website devoted to the theory and |
| America and into Mexico, I found that every | | | | practice of using the Mayan Hammock as a bed. |
| region had its own distinctive hammock style. In | | | | No sooner had my King size cotton Mayan |
| the rural areas, and also in the more relaxed | | | | Hammock arrived and been strung up, I began to |
| urban areas, hammocks are still in wide use in | | | | find ongoing relief from the ailments of a too solid |
| beds. When I got back to the States I had | | | | flesh! The reason that the hammock provides |
| brought a couple with me, and, out of nostalgia, | | | | such relief is that it does not create pressure |
| strung them up for bed use. How sweet it was! | | | | points; and the "cellular" weave structure provides |
| But life goes on. A guy meets a girl. And things | | | | remarkable support over every inch of the body. |
| build and develop. Then the next thing you know, | | | | It is almost like floating in water, except a lot |
| the old married guy is sleeping in a king size bed | | | | drier! In the hammock I wake up refreshed and |
| with all those darn pillows and shams, and all this | | | | rested. A hammock is a back's best friend! |