Memory Foam Mattresses
Dec 19, 2005
Author: Thomas Jay Wacker

NASA called upon all the inventors and innovators they could in
the early 70‚s, and many things never before dreamed of, became
reality. What would help these courageous souls overcome the
frontiers of space and boldly go where know one had ever gone
before? Imagination And from their imaginations came memory
foam mattresses. For a long time it was thought that mattresses
made from memory foam could do the trick But that was not the
calling of this exquisite invention, but rather the realm of
commercially bought and sold mattresses to consumers here on
earth!

Not only have they revolutionized the earthling‚s way of
sleeping, but they themselves have generated a whole new
dimension of creativity. Things like, size, weight, density,
design and dynamics are but a few of the qualities found in a
memory foam mattress, but how have they been used? Memory foam
was not used in the NASA program, true, but a lot of things
weren‚t, that just means that it found its way into more
important fields.

Take the field of medicine, for example. In Sweden, a genius
came up with this wonderful idea to use the memory foam mattress
for patients with back pain problems. The idea was that since
memory foam mattresses conform themselves to the sleepers body,
without creating pressure point resistance, then they would work
wonders on people with similarly related problems, such as
pressure sores.

Over time, different kinds of memory foam were created and
innovators launched at the opportunity to defend a new and
revolutionary way of getting a truly good night‚s sleep. Memory
foam mattresses were divided between technologies and then
re-mantled among the various different mattress sciences Memory
foam works best when layered over a hard surface at
approximately 2‰ ˆ 3‰ weighing around 4lbs.

But why the name, memory foam? The mattress does not have a
memory per-say, but rather cells that deform when under load.
Different from a spring back kind of mattress where all points
of the mattress are always trying to find there way back to
point zero resistance, memory foam actually deforms each cell,
by smashing it and evacuating the air, dislodging it into other
cells. This makes the foam more difficult to reach point zero
again since the process of deforming literally creates a vacuum.

In this way, the bed will remain in the position the load has
determined every time the slumbering individual has just awoken
from a dream, moves position and goes back into the dream world.
It really helps the sleeper get a more comfortable night‚s sleep
and it induces more powerful dreams, since memory foam actually
creates the support necessary for the determined load, without
favoring any specific pressure point.

As its like a big sponge, the air forced out and throughout the
surrounding cells, is forced back in when the load is removed,
but over a slower period of time so that, once again no pressure
point is favored over any other.

About the author:
About the author: Thomas Jay Wacker is the General
Manager and V.P. of target="_blank">www.simplepedic.com. Wacker has over 20
years experience in the home furnishing industry and leads the
Wacker Management Team in Denver Colorado.