Sleeping on one's back for many people means greatly reduced body oxygen stores, poor perfusion of the brain, and an abnormal and heavy breathing pattern. This often causes acute minor symptoms (blocked nose, dry mouth, snoring, sleep apnea, migraine headaches, fatigue, etc.) or major problems (heart attacks, stroke, asthma attacks, etc.) In fact, critically ill patients (heart disease, asthma, COPD, diabetes, etc.) most often die during early morning hours. Sleep has profound adverse effects on their health state.
There were different therapys invented to prevent sleeping on one's back. Some people were sleeping with a backpack to prevent turning on their back. This is one “awkward” option. It is possible to prop oneself from the sides with pillows. Another option is to sew a pocket on the back of your night shirt and put a tennis ball in the pocket.
The better and simple solution is to take a sock and wrap it around the middle of a belt making a knot. For better night's sleep, the belt can be positioned around the middle or lower part of the chest with the knot positioned on the person's back. The knot should be big enough to prevent the person from sleeping on their back and soft enough to not wake up the person.
Another popular solution is to take a long scarf or double strip of bed linen about the size of a long scarf. Wrap it around your trunk and make two knots on your chest. Then move the knots around to your back.
Are there any other sleep parameters which are important? Yes, practice shows, that some people can turn on their backs at night because of very warm blankets or beds being too soft. If we slept on hard beds we would remember some turning during the night but feel much better, in terms of breathing and oxygenation, in the morning. For many people, carpets and warm conditions in the bedroom are adverse factors.
Should a person use the above methods for the rest of their life? According to medical observations sleeping on one's back is a distinctive feature of sick people. Healthy people, who have normal breathing parameters and normal cellular or tissue oxygenation, do not sleep on their back. It is only when body oxygenation drops, and breathing becomes heavy, and symptoms of various diseases appear, sleeping on one's back becomes normal. In order to find how to permanently solve this problem, visit my website www.normalbreathing.com
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