Is Your Sleep Harming Your Health?

You are how you sleep. Both in quality and quantity. The better you sleep, for the appropriate amount of time, the healthier you will be.

Sleep is vital for good health. The evidence is overwhelming that insufficient sleep contributes to a variety of unhealthy conditions including diabetes, depression, obesity and cardiovascular disease. Poor quality sleep is also attributed to an increase in worksite accidents and automobile accidents.

While the quantity of your sleep – 8 hours, on average, is important, the quality of your sleep is even more vital to your overall health. Your body needs sleep to heal and rejuvenate and to help you handle stress and manage pain more effectively.

When it comes to lower back pain, how you sleep can make a big difference in how you handle it.