9 things you need to know when shopping for a mattress with back pain, according to a sleep expert and osteopath

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There are currently 1300 online searches per month on Google in the UK around finding a mattress to help with back pain, which suggests that a high number of us are struggling to get comfortable at night. What's more, this search trend has doubled over the past five years.

As Ideal Home’s Sleep Editor, and a regular tester of mattresses for our best mattress guide, what type of mattress to buy if you have back pain is also a question I hear a lot. This is backed up by research published in the Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology that states that ‘low back pain has been identified as one of the main causes of poor sleep quality'.