Is a Memory Foam Mattress Pad Worth It?

We've talked a little bit about memory foam inoffer the same benefits as a full scale mattress.
our discussion on visco elastic. As we discussedYou may not think so, but studies have shown
there, it is basically just polyurethane with athat these pads can indeed nearly duplicate the
couple of additives to boost it's density andeffect of having a memory foam mattress,
viscosity. The result is a foam that is firm, butsimply by being placed upon a standard mattress.
gives when weight is applied. If you have sat onNot bad, right? When you look at the price
an airplane, or squeezed the headrest in adifferential -- a queen memory foam mattress
recent-model car, you have felt what memorypad, for instance, will cost around $200, the
foam feels like. It is a material that is unlike mostargument becomes very intriguing.
others and has a feeling that is hard to describe.The big thing to look out for is the thickness of
But, those who sleep on it each night swear bythe memory foam mattress topper pad that
its ability to conform to the body, decreaseyou're buying. There are several companies out
tossing and turning, and promote an overall betterthere offering 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch thick pads for
night's sleep.sale, attempting to simply cash in on the hype and
So, if foam is so great, and people enjoy sleepingpopularity that memory foam has enjoyed in
on it so much, then why is there a market forrecent years. These often go for prices that look
memory foam mattress pads, and why are youphenomenal, but beware. You'll see almost no
reading this post? Well, as I'm sure you maybenefit from a pad of this thickness. To truly reap
know, this stuff is expensive. Originally designedthe benefits of one of these pads, you need at
by NASA for airplane seats, this material actuallyleast an inch in width. After all, the whole purpose
only became available to the public market in theof this material is to allow your body ample room
early 1980s, and only actually became affordableto inflict it's will, so to speak, on the surface
to the public sector about ten years later.below. You simply won't get this effect with a
Beginning in the early 1990s, the market forpad that is too thin.
memory foam began to boom. Manufacturers ofMy experience with memory foam has been a
everything from mattresses, to seat cushions, togreat one. I don't yet have a full on memory
pool floats began experimenting with this materialfoam mattress, but I suspect that it will come not
to see if they could create better products.too far down the road, as I have greatly enjoyed
Unfortunately, though the material becamethe mattress pad that I have been sleeping on
available, and less cost prohibitive, it has remainedfor the last several months. And I don't have a
to this day very expensive.particularly nice mattress, mind you. I have a
Now, that may have been a long windedrather common Sealy, which is nice, but by no
introduction, but the real reason a market for ameans spectacular. I came across the memory
memory foam mattress pad topper emerged isfoam pads sort of by accident. I have had my
because the cost of making an entire mattressmattress for about two years, but it wasn't until
out of the stuff is still quite expensive. These sellseveral months ago that I began waking up with
for well over $1,000 and can approach prices ofshoulder pains. Knowing that I couldn't afford to
$3,000 and more. The benefits, as mentionedsimply replace the mattress, I decided to see if a
above, have long been touted by admirers. Usersmodification of some kind might do the trick. I'm
claim to sleep through the night with ease afterhappy to say that augmenting my insufficient
switching to memory foam due to a number ofmattress with one of these pads did the trick in a
reasons. The foam is engineered in such a waybig way. I now wake up feeling great, and can
that it gives according to how much pressure ishonestly say that I owe it all to making this
applied, and it only gives in the one local area. So,switch. Buying one of these pads was a great
the mattress will sink in more where your hipsway to test-drive memory foam, so to speak,
rest than your feet because the mid-section ofwithout buying an expensive new mattress. But
you body is much heavier. This allows the sleeperwith the way I feel about it at this point, it may
to attain a body position that is more natural thatnot be long before I bite the bullet. So, Is a
other mattresses allow, or so say the proponents.memory foam mattress pad worth it? Absolutely.
But can an isotonic memory foam mattress pad