Pillows for back sleepers should have a higher loft than pillows for stomach sleepers, and pillows for side sleepers should have a lower loft. An ideal pillow for back sleepers promotes spinal alignment rather than arching the neck too high or sinking the head too deep.

Do back sleepers need a pillow?

A pillow may place the neck at an even sharper angle, which is why stomach sleepers feel comfortable sleeping without one. In order to maintain proper spinal alignment, side and back sleepers usually need a pillow. Sleeping on one’s side leaves the largest gap between the head and the pillow.

What is the best way to use a back sleeper pillow?

When you sleep on your back, where should you place your pillow? During sleeping on your back, Radermacher recommends that you position your pillow beneath your head and neck but not under your shoulders while sleeping on your back.

It is not a good idea to sleep with your shoulders on your pillow, he says. As an alternative, tuck your pillow just above and around your shoulders rather than tucking it under them.

For back sleepers, what type of pillow is best?

It is common for people to sleep on their backs, either alone or in combination with sleeping on their sides and fronts. Back sleepers benefit from medium pillows because they improve physical comfort, reduce aches and pains, and align their neck and spine.

Your head will be adequately supported without being pushed too far forward by these pillows. In medium firmness pillows, hollowfibre and natural feather and down blends are used as filling materials.