Fibromyalgia, arthritis and restless legs syndrome are physical conditions that tend to affect a specific area of the body, commonly causing pains and stiffness.
While a weighted blanket doesn’t cure the conditions, it helps ease the symptoms, and lower the level of stress they place on your nervous system when they are to flare up resulting in more content and uninterrupted sleep.
Your body is under significant tension when you experience the symptoms, which is the way your body responded to it naturally in protecting you and communicating with you. Such tension can lead to a prolonged period of alertness even after it fades away and keeps you up at night.
Our weighted blankets are designed with over 60 pressure-alleviating spots to deliver an effective Deep Touch Pressure Stimulation. The light physical pressure on each spot together soothe your nervous system by lowering cortisol (a.k.a. the stress hormone), relax and calm the tension your body urges to create which could also speed up the restoration to the normal state.
The boosted level of serotonin (a.k.a. the happy chemical) and oxytocin (a.k.a. the love hormone) resulted by such nurturing physical contacts helps stabilize your mood overall and make you fall asleep faster and easier being less anxious about the symptoms. It might also lower the chance of symptoms flaring up when your body is in a relaxed state under our weighted blanket.