1. Morning back pain usually isn’t your back. It’s the top three inches of your mattress.

1. Morning back pain usually isn’t your back. It’s the top three inches of your mattress.
That deep ache when you wake up. The stiffness that takes twenty minutes to loosen. Most people blame their age or their desk chair — never what they sleep on. The soft layer on top compresses years before the springs do, turning into a shallow trench: hips lower than shoulders, lower back bent out of line. Your back isn’t failing. The surface under it already has.













