How does your back feel when you wake up in the morning? If it's sore like 80% of our adult population experiences, you need to know how back support impacts your quality of sleep.*

When you sleep, your spine should be properly aligned. In other words, it should be in the same position when lying down as when standing.This is critical for reducing stress and enhancing the quality of sleep. That's why you need to make sure your sleep system is designed with five zones of support to match the five zones of your body.

Traditional mattress designs firm up the center third of the mattress, ignoring the upper back and lower leg regions. Such designs can create pressure on the hips and may force the spine into an unnatural position. This causes the lower back muscles to work all night long to try and correct a misalignment.

Simmons® BackCare® is the first patented sleep system with five zones of comfort and support in each key component. Its unique design and construction help keep your spine in its natural alignment throughout the sleeping hours.This process reduces stress, while enhancing the recuperative value and quality of your sleep.


You buy shoes that properly support your feet, shouldn't you buy bedding that properly supports your back? Good bedding helps you fall asleep, stay asleep and reduce stress on your back and neck while you sleep. And the proper sleep system should offer comfort and support. Only Simmons® BackCare® is designed around the body's five zones. It's engineered to minimize spinal stress and increase sleep that's rejuvenating.*


Every Simmons® BackCare® mattress is anatomically designed to provide better support, enhance comfort, and promote more restful sleep. Our powerful combination of special features helps restore the body, so you wake up ready to get up and go. The BackCare® Gradient Support system consists of five unique zones that recreate a natural, healthy standing posture in an innovative sleep surface. Three Comfort Zones reduce pressure on the body and cradle the body for individualized support. Two Support Zones help maintain the spine's natural alignment.


All exercise is good for the entire body, not just the lower back. Exercise improves blood flow to spinal discs, joints, and muscles, relaxing painful spasms and accelerating healing.

Here are some exercises that can help keep your back strong and flexible for any sport or activity:

1. Press Up
   Lie face down. Using your arms, and keeping your hips on the ground, try to press your upper torso up and back as far as possible. Remember to relax your back as you press up. Hold for 30 seconds to one minute. Repeat one to two times.
2. Knees To Chest Hip Stretch
   Lie on your back, lift one knee, then the other, to your chest. Hold for 10 seconds. For a variation, try this exercise lifting only one leg at a time, leaving the other leg stretched out in front of you.
3. Lumbar Rotation
   Lie on your back, shoulders flat, knees bent, feet on the floor. With your knees together, slowly let your knees drop to one side, hold for 10 seconds, and repeat to the opposite side. For a more advanced version, extend your top leg while leaving your bottom leg bent, and move your arms in the opposite direction.
4. Rotation Curl
   Lie on your back with your knees bent and heels next to buttocks. Fold your arms across your chest. Slowly curl your right shoulder off the floor toward left knee until left shoulder leaves the floor. Hold for 10 seconds, breathing deeply.
5. Spinal Extension
   Lie face down with elbows bent and fingers touching your ears. Exhale as you lift your upper body off the floor. Hold for 10 seconds.

*Statistics regarding back soreness, sleep tips and back care exercises from Power Sleep:The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance, by Dr. James B. Maas, Ph.D., Megan L.Wherry, David J. Axelrod, Barbara R. Hogan, and Jennifer A. Blumin, Harper Perennial-A Division of Harper Collins Publishers, 1998.