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How Sleeping With Elevated Legs Helps When You Use Adjustable Beds?

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The weight of your body entirely rests upon your feet. Naturally, over the years they can develop a wide range of medical conditions, leaving you practically immobilised.   The problems can be many - starting from blood clots to swelling in various parts of your limbs. Thus, if you place the legs and the knees at an elevated position when sleeping, that will go a long way in alleviating these complications. Thus, these adjustable beds help in alleviating these problems.  Here is a list of medical conditions that you can get rid of, by sleeping with elevated legs in an adjustable bed. It Reduces Edema in the Legs and Feet Before discussing how adjustable beds help reduce the edema, let us discuss what causes edema. The leading causes behind Edema are:  Build-up of fluid in lower extremities due to standing or sitting in a static posture for an extended period, more so in hot conditions  Venous insufficiency, which results from weak valves of veins that run through the leg