Experts Wendy Troxel and William Lu discuss how back-sleeping and side-sleeping positions can impact conditions like sleep apnea and back pain, noting that the best choice will vary.

What’s your preferred sleeping position? Do you lie on your side like a fetus, sleep on your back like a log or corpse, or do you lie on your stomach like you’ve fallen from a great height? You might ...

Sleep apnea can have untold consequences even in your waking hours. The good news? The condition is treatable.

Sleeping on your right side may be the best sleep position for heart health, anxiety, and depression. Right-sided sleeping can also improve airflow in people who snore or have sleep apnea .

“Usually, the better position [for adults] to reduce snoring and possible sleep apnea is sleeping on the side (left or right),” added Gilyadov, who is also an assistant professor of medicine ...

Despite these disadvantages, stomach sleeping proves remarkably effective for reducing snoring and certain forms of sleep apnea. The prone position naturally prevents the tongue from falling ...

That comfortable side-sleeping position you’ve loved for years might be carving lines into your face every single night. While you’re dreaming peacefully, your pillow is essentially iron ...

While training in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery in Australia, Somnair Sleep co-founder and CEO Anders Sideris, Engr ...

Sleeping position significantly impacts digestion and heart health. Left-side sleeping aids digestion by facilitating food ...

But this turned out to be a misconception that hasn’t allowed us “to capture the disease accurately,” Christine Won, MD, medical director of the Yale Centers for Sleep Medicine and director of the ...

If you have back pain or conditions like heartburn, chronic snoring, and obstructive sleep apnea, sleeping on your back may not be the best option for you, but there are still things you can do to ...

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