Patent ID: 7874032

Claim:
A method for developing a positional orientation sleep aspect (POSA) to enhance individual awareness of sleeping position to enable the individual located on a bed of fixed width to assume at least one preselected side-sleeping orientation alternately on either a left or right side, said method utilizing a pillow combination having a full transverse span shorter than the fixed width of the bed and including first and second cylindrically configured, elongate pillows tethered together in parallel orientation by an intermediate member for providing concurrent lateral restraint at forward and back sides of the individual, said method comprising steps of: a) placing the cylindrically configured, tethered pillows on the bed with the tethered pillows in the parallel orientation; b) positioning the individual's body in a preselected, side-position orientation on the intermediate member to capture the intermediate member under a trunk portion of the body while establishing at least three separate and concurrent points of contact including (i) contact of the trunk portion in the side-position orientation with the intermediate member on the bed, (ii) contact of a low back side of the trunk portion with an adjacent side of the first pillow, and (iii) contact of a forward projecting leg from the trunk portion with the second pillow; c) sustaining the at least three points of contact over a sufficient period of time prior to and during sleep to establish a sustainable recognition and awareness to the individual during sleep of the side-position orientation (referred to as POSA) while allowing the individual freedom of movement to also assume alternate positions between the pillow combination, including free movement of the individual's limbs.