The Memory Foam Travel Pillow – The Perfect Travelling Companion

The memory foam travel pillow is the latest in the growing family of memory foam products, including mattresses and pillows. For those of us who travel, either for business or pleasure, there can be little pleasure involved in arriving at your destination with a stiff neck, aching back, a tense headache or the feeling that we have been deprived of several nights sleep. A memory foam travel pillow is a solution which can help arriving at your destination feel like pleasure – even when it’s business.

Memory foam products share the same basic characteristics, based on technologies designed as part of the NASA space programme. Memory foam is actually comprised of millions of small cells which react to the heat of your body, and to pressure. By relaxing into a memory foam pillow, the polyurethane cells mold themselves around your body in an ergonomic and relaxing way.

Whether you travel by plane, train, coach or car, resting your head against the back of your seat is hardly comfortable. Pressure points can develop over time as your head is pushed against the unforgiving headrest. These pressure points often result in trapped or compressed nerves, especially in the head, face and neck, and this often leads to headaches. Arriving for a business meeting, or even the first day of your holiday, accompanied by a throbbing headache is not ideal.

A memory foam mattress is able to relieve this pressure, providing a fully supportive cushion to ensure that there are no pressure points, no compressed nerves, and no resulting headache. Your neck is particularly sensitive to vibrations, compressions and distortions, and this can directly lead to intense headaches, stiff necks and painful backs – all of which can take hours of even days to fully recover.

These common neck problems are usually the result of trying to relax or sleep whilst on a plane, coach or in a car. In such an environment your head tends to drop to one side or the other, and its weight tends to distort your neck – often for long stretches at a time. This prolonged contortion is extremely bad for you, leading to long term injuries, nerve damage and restricted blood flow. A memory foam mattress conforms to the natural shape of your body, providing support exactly where it is needed.

At night most people will naturally tend to turn over and move about quite a lot. This is the body’s way of relieving pressure points which might otherwise cause nerve damage or restrict circulation. Poor quality mattresses will tend to increase this need for movement. When you are traveling, particularly when your journey might take several hours, you will often feel the need to relax, and perhaps catch some sleep – but your body is unable to effectively relieve the pressure.

Unlike being in bed, you will be confined to a chair, and your head will be pushed constantly against the headrest, or perhaps the side wall of the coach or plane. This can easily result in prolonged pressure, without the chance for your body to compensate it. This is why often people feel more exhausted after sleeping on a plane or in a car or coach, because the body is trying to relieve the pressure, but can’t. A memory foam travel pillow is able to alleviate all of this pressure,
providing comfortable and protective support for your head, neck and shoulders.

Because memory foam adapts and molds itself to the contours of your body, you can be confident that the travel pillow will allow you to relax, unwind and enjoy a refreshing sleep, without causing your body to feel uncomfortable. Your head will no longer be trying to drop down to one side or the other, pulling and stretching the nerves and blood vessels in your neck. Instead, the memory foam pillow will keep your head in a comfortable, safe and ergonomic position, preventing damage or discomfort.

Memory foam reacts to the warmth of your body, and will itself become warm as you use it. This warmth will wrap itself across your shoulders, neck and head, adding to the comfort, and helping your muscles to relax. Tension and stress, particular problems relating to travel, will tend to cause the muscles in your neck and shoulders to tighten. By providing adequate support, as well as applying heat directly to the affected areas, you will find yourself arriving at your destination
having not just enjoyed a relaxing sleep, but actually feeling less tense, and more comfortable than you did at the start of your journey.

Whether you travel for business, or perhaps just heading off for your holiday, and whether you travel by road, sea, air or rail, a memory foam travel pillow will help you to arrive in comfort, allowing you to enjoy every minute of your holiday, or dive straight into business meetings with your full attention and vigour. Small enough to carry with you anywhere, fully hypoallergenic, the memory foam travel pillow makes the ideal travelling companion.