School can take a toll on your body, and with a new semester quickly approaching, you need to be prepared. Most college kids don’t realize the big difference studying and sleeping in comfort can make. Often times, school mattresses and desk chairs are hard, uncomfortable, and painful to sleep or study in. This creates a recipe for poor attention spans. You can fight all of these problems though with a few simple comfort products.

The Contour Flip Pillow is an excellent pillow for your twin size bed. It sports a 10-in-1 design that allows you multiple uses all year long. It can be positioned upward for a back rest while you read text books late into the night or it can be flipped for an elevated sleeping wedge. The wedge-shaped design also allows for heart burn relief at night after eating greasy cafeteria food. If you have a futon in your dorm room this year, then use our Flip Pillow for support when lounging against the arm rest. It can also be used to elevate your legs so your feet can rest after a long day of trekking across campus. The Flip Pillow is great option no how you use it, including for back, stomach, and side sleeping.

If you are returning to campus, you will probably remember your old, thin, and unsupportive dorm mattress. There were probably plenty of mornings you debated skipping class due to exhaustion from a bad night’s sleep. This year, change your sleeping arrangements by adding a mattress topper. Mattress toppers are a great way to build support and comfort into your ordinary mattress. Our Contour Cloud Memory Foam Mattress Topper is specially designed with three layers of foam to give you better back support. The first layer is memory foam and feels like a cloud. The second layer gives you added lumbar support and keeps you from tossing and turning all night. The third layer provides a firm base so your mattress topper never bottoms out. It has an ergonomic and orthopedic design, meaning it was designed to improve your sleeping quality, so you can perform better daily and help support your natural spine alignment. The Contour Cloud Memory Foam Mattress Topper will help you sleep better, so you no longer have to fight waking up each morning.

As a student, you can easily spend all night studying in the library or at your desk. Most dorm rooms come with a desk and chair set for students, but often the seat is wood or plastic and definitely uncomfortable; and libraries can be no better. However, you do not have to sacrifice an achy back for better grades anymore. Try out a Freedom Back Support Cushion in your desk chair. It is a full length back support cushion with an ergonomic design to help you study better and longer. It has a unique curve to promote natural and correct spinal alignment. It will attach to any chair using attached Velcro straps and is lightweight so you can carry it to the library or lecture hall. This seat back cushion will change the way you study, so be sure to bring one along on move-in day.

School might be approaching but that doesn’t mean you have to worry about classes yet. However, you should start planning to buy back to school supplies. These three products will change your life and your academic performance. By adding one or all three to your schedule, you can capitalize on your sleep and your study time to be the best student you are able to be.

Give your favorite student a great start to the new year with one of our exclusive comfort bundles.

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The History of the Recliner: Back Pain Relief on the Rise

The recliner has long since been a staple to the American home. They’re comfortable, offer a slick way to put up one’s feet, and can be called upon on even the worst of days. Folks search for years to find the perfect fit, then spend evenings leaded back with a newspaper or a TV remote.

But once upon a time, chairs sat at 90-degree angles.

People either sat in a chair, or when it was time for relaxing, they laid down. Those were the options and there wasn’t much in-between, if any. But in 1850, the world saw its first chair/bed combo in the form of a French “reclining camp bed.” Equipped with padded armrests, the model could easily switch between chair and bed, thus eliminating the need for extra furniture. Soon an American version was also released, and was made to hold one’s book or papers for easy reading.

Decades later, in 1928, a set of cousins got a patent for a wooden recliner, an event that led to the creation of La-Z-Boy. (Though the first recliner is said to have been owned by Napoleon III.) Then in 1930, the cousins, Edward Knabush and Edwin Shoemaker, added mechanical reclining features and swapped their wooden chair for one that was upholstered.

Next for the recliner came new engineering, created by Daniel F. Caldemeyer, after his work in the U.S. Air Force. Caldemeyer also added features such as the footrest, heating, and massage, before patenting the world’s first entertainment center. His new reclining model was so efficient by way of use and kinetics that NASA used it for its astronaut seats in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.

President Lyndon Johnson even received 50 Caldemeyer’s recliners as a Christmas gift from the Secret Service, one of which he used to recover from gall bladder surgery. [NPR]

While today’s options are certainly more advanced by way of fabrics and storage, their reclining features still stems from these same mechanics. With just a few breakthroughs, those everywhere can enjoy their favorite chair … now with the ability to relax and recline.

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New Donut Cushion - Versatility At Your Finger Tips

Contour Living’s Kabooti Donut Cushion (also known as "the better ring cushion") offers to comfort sore and sensitive areas by combining the best features and benefits of a ring shaped donut cushion, Coccyx cushion and a traditional seating wedge.

With its many uses the Kabooti Donut Cushion packs a punch by providing all day comfort. The new and improved innovative design reduces tailbone pressure, improves posture, and reduces pressure points under the thighs. The Kabooti Donut Cushion can help comfort and relieve the pain of Prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain suffers, who have difficulty sitting for long periods of time. Prostatitis is inflammations of the prostate gland with four know types, acute bacterial prostatitis, chronic bacterial prostatitis, chronic prostatitis without infection and asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis. All are very painful, so having a Kabooti Donut Cushion while you heal can make your life a whole lot easier.

For people who suffer from hemorrhoids sitting on the Kabooti Donut Cushion can provide you with less pain and more comfort, allowing the sore area to heal up smoothly.

If you suffer from broke, bruised, hurt your coccyx (tailbone) you know how painful that can be. It is even more painful to site down which can cause real challenges. The Kabooti Donut Cushion offers a Coccyx cutout which helps reduce the pain and pressure in your tailbone, which in turn will make it easier to sit down. The Kabooti Donut Cushion can also help with general coccyx pain.

The Kabooti Donut Cushion can also be used if you suffer from any of the following:
·    Post-operative pain
·    Post-partum pain or tenderness
·    Pregnancy discomfort
·    Hip pain
·    General Anal pain
·    Back Pain and more

Even if you don’t suffer from any of these conditions, you can still put the Kabooti Donut Cushion to good use. With the built in traditional seating wedge, this cushion can be used as a chair cushion, adding a comfort layer to any office chair, auto seat, task chair etc., allowing you to sit on any chair with ease and comfort. This is especially helpful if you need to sit at a desk or drive a car for long periods of time. The wedge shape and tapered design helps encourage body alignment, proper posture by slightly tilting the pelvis forward, complete support where you need it (tailbone, buttocks) and less support under thighs.  The wedge design also helps circulation under thighs. Having proper posture by slightly tilting the pelvis forward helps maintain the spine’s proper lumbar curve for low back comfort and pelvic support.

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