Good back support: How soft or hard a mattress feels is only a matter of personal preference. What is really important is to obtain the necessary support for your spine.
Flexibility: a mattress should be flexible enough as to allow the spine’s natural curves and to keep the spine align when you are lying down.
Combination of support and flexibility: should be such as to avoid pressure points. It is important to distribute pressure evenly across de body to help circulation.
Provide adequate bed climate: a mattress that have natural materials to control body temperature and help take humidity away, provides more comfort to the sleeping person.
Comfort zones: a mattress that additionally have shoulder comfort zone and reinforcement in the middle for additional back support is more comfortable for the sleeping person.
Transfer of movement. A good mattress should minimize the transfer of movement from one partner to the other.
Be easy to turn. Like Dr. Hedge well explains in his article Save your Back with Sleep, it is indispensable to turn your mattress often, he even emphasizes “turn turn turn”.
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