If you like sleeping on your side, you probably know that subtle pain you feel on your knees, hips and lower back when your knees touch each other. This position causes pain because of the unnatural posture of your body which causes the joints on your hips to over extend. This may lead to a serious pain and soreness if staying in this posture is prolonged. What you need is to correct the position of the knees by using a knee pillow.

A knee pillow is a something that you could put between your knees, to keep them apart. By keeping the knees apart, the knee of the top leg will not be strained and will be aligned with the hips. This will prevent any sore to be felt on the joints.

Knee pillows are usually made with polyurethane foam either rectangular in shape or shaped like an hour glass. The rectangular shaped knee pillow are difficult to keep in place and would usually have a velcro strap so it would stay in position with your leg while the hour glass shaped knee pillow is more stable because it has trenches on both sides where you could place your legs in.

Knee pillows are cheap luxury products. They are very affordable but you don’t necessarily need to own or use knee pillows sold in the market. In fact, you could use a normal pillow as a knee pillow.

In South East Asia, China and Japan, it is customary to have an extra pillow to hug and keep the knees apart. It comes in different names but function the same way. Aside from having something to hug when you sleep, it also provides comfort by letting you maintain the correct posture by having your knees align with your hips.

Knee pillows would be a great companion in your sleep but as we said, it is a luxury more than a necessity. Even a normal or ordinary pillow could work as a knee pillow so you don’t have to spend so much on something you could replace with something cheaper.

But if you have the money to spare and you want an ergonomically designed pillow to support your knees, hips and back, then knee pillows would certainly be a great product for you.