For many years the orthopedic mattress was matched to the concept of “hard mattress”, or to be more technical to “stiff mattress”.
The doctors for years have advised patients suffering from back pain a hard mattress: this meant that the orthopedic mattress was associated in the collective imagination to the mattress with high stiffness.
Over the years the term “orthopedic mattress” has been reassessed and reconsidered by assigning a different value.
Find out what is an orthopedic mattress, read this article and understand if your back pain came from your “orthopedic” mattress or not.