Using A Portable Folding Cot To Decompress Spinal Discs
Recently I had to move out of the regular apartment room I had been living in for the last year or so while there was some renovation work being done on the bathroom area. Since I had been living with my girlfriend in the very small room for cost reasons, it was not possible to stay in the apartment due to toxic odors being used. The bathroom and bedroom was in the same space. The result was the fact that I had to stay and live with her father for a while. That was quite awkward to say the least. Since he was not expecting company, he only had a type of fold up cot ready. That was what I slept on for a few days. What happened was actually very surprising. I noticed that I actually got a really good night’s sleep.
That is unusual since I actually have some sleeping problems and have a lower back pain problem. It seems that it does take me a long time to get comfortable on a mattress. I can only sleep with I am fully relaxed and comfortable. I really enjoyed the cot and wondered what was going on. When I woke up at night I noticed that I felt great, my lower back pain completely disappeared, and I actually noticed that I looked taller, at least right after waking up. Since I was in who could be my future father-in-law’s apartment, there was no way to possibly get an accurate measurement of my height. Was I really taller than my usual morning height from sleeping on this strange camping cot? I knew that most doors in most countries have a certain height and I had to get a plastic ruler to make a very close measurement of the top of my head to the top of the door, factoring in the distance of the door’s bottom to the surface of the floor. When I did that, I got a reasonably close measurement of what my height was in the morning right after waking up. Now that I have come back to the normal apartment, I did a comparison of my height from a night’s sleep in the normal bed.
I found that there was probably a full 1/4th of an inch difference between the two measurements. The difference was indeed noticeable. 1/4th of an inch is slightly more than 1/2 of an cm and that is something that can’t be attributed to just measurement error, especially since I recently shaved my hair to a thin layer very recently.
This showed that at least for my body, sleeping on different types of beds did have some type of effect. What I am guessing with the cot that I was sleeping on was that the cot was not bed downward like most models, but bent slightly upwards. That strange army cot was old looked to have been used too much many decades ago.
The upwards bent was something that I could easily feel on my mid to lower back region. It was not painful but just a strange feeling to be sleeping being bend downwards. I did not notice anything like all the blood traveling due to gravity downwards to my the top of my head but I could feel that the middle of my body was elevated higher than the others. What I would suspect is that the portable folding cot somehow over the night slowly caused my body to decompress spinal discs until the discs filled back up with cerebral spinal fluid or whatever is in the center of the intervertebral discs. I would later learn it was called the nucleus pulposus which is gelatinous in feel.
Obviously this idea of sleeping on bent up portable cots is not a final permanent solution on helping people end up taller or increasing their height but it seems to be doing quite well in increase the morning after wakeup height by a significant amount that is definitely noticeable. Obviously the increase in height is temporary but that does show that even from sleeping on the right type of unit would result in one’s height to increase slightly.