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Headline:

Back pain: Medium mattress beneficial

Newspaper Article Synopsis:

A randomized controlled trial has been done on whether a firm mattress is better for back pain sufferers. The study of over 300 people found that a medium firmness mattress were more likely to report improvement of their idiopathic chronic back pain than those who slept on a firm mattress.

Newspaper Article Source:

Associated Press. Back pain: Medium mattress beneficial. Star Tribune, 2003 November 14: A10(col. 2).

Journal Article Citation:

Kovacs, F. M., et al. Effect of firmness of mattress on chronic non-specific low-back pain: randomised, double-blind, controlled, multicentre trial . Lancet 2003 Nov 15; 362(9396): 1599-1604.

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