Patent ID: 8720447

Claim:
A method for developing a positional orientation sleep aspect (POSA) to enhance individual awareness of sleeping position to enable the individual to assume and maintain at least one preselected side-sleeping orientation alternately on either a left or right side on a bed surface and thereby avoid a supine position, said individual contact on the bed surface providing a first contact point of reference to a side-sleeping orientation for the individual, the method comprising the steps of: a) attaching a light weight, elongate back pillow at the back side of the individual in a hinged, rotatable, suspended configuration that provides concurrent contact of the pillow with both a lateral back side of the individual and the bed surface when the individual is in a side sleeping orientation and in a manner that provides a second contact point of reference to the individual in the side-sleeping orientation; b) positioning a second pillow at a contact point on a leg of the individual in accordance with POSA methodology to establish a third contact point of reference for the side-sleeping orientation; and c) rotating the back pillow to an opposing lateral back side of the individual as the individual repositions to an opposing side-sleeping position to maintain the second contact point of reference at the individual's back; d) wherein the step of attaching the light weight, elongate pillow at the back side of the individual in the suspended configuration comprises (i) securing a lower end of the elongate back pillow to at least one support strap worn around the trunk of the individual and (ii) laterally adjusting a position of the strap and attached pillow to properly position the pillow in the partial capture configuration concurrently at the back and bed surface with the user in the side-sleeping position.