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How to sleep with a bad back and hotel bed?

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Dr. Marsha Davis answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Position: If you lay on your back keep you knees bent a put a decent roll under bent knees at all times. If you sleep on your side still keep your knees bent but please a pillow between your knees.

Answered 10/4/2016

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