The wrong bedroom surroundings can contribute to pain conditions by interfering with the hormones responsible for initiating and resolving inflammation. With a few adjustments those surroundings can be modified allowing cortisol to take the night-time break it needs to efficiently resolve the inflammation behind the pain.
What can I do?
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Spend the hour before bed on low light, low noise, low demand activities
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Turn off wireless equipment
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Unplug electrical equipment
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Keep the bedroom dark - using red light where necessary
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Avoid unbound penetrating chemicals from personal care products and synthetic bedding
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Eliminate noise entry and its transfer between hard surfaces
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Recommended Reading - Books
The Sleep-Powered Wellness Workbook: Better Bedrooms for Better Sleep, by Angela Hobbs
Hobbs guides the reader through the 24 hour hormone rhythm revealing the many ways that a person's surroundings can be used to support it. A workbook packed with simple, inexpensive suggestions for exploiting our surroundings to support our most environmentally sensitive hormones.
Sleep-Powered Wellness: Better Bedrooms for Turbocharged Zzzz's, by Angela Hobbs
Hobbs discusses the impact that noise, wireless, light, electricity, chemicals and air pollutants can have on the hormones responsible for sleep and alertness, and ultimately on many common symptoms of ill health.
It's Not Just Growing Pains: A Guide to Childhood Muscle, Bone, and Joint Pain, Rheumatic Diseases, and the Latest Treatments by Thomas Lehman
Lehman addresses the common causes and treatments of bone, joint, muscle, and arthritis pain in children.
The Pain-Free Program: A Proven Method to Relieve Back, Neck, Shoulder and Joint Pain by Anthony Carey
Carey presents his breakthrough method of posture alignment and exercise therapy for relieving muscoskeletal pain.