The ErgoStar Difference

• The whisper quiet, low voltage, DC lift system provides smooth, quiet and
  confident operation
• Wireless Remote for fingertip control versus a awkward one that is hard wired to the bed
• Remote control that can be easily programmed to remember and return to favorite positions
• Back up power to return the bed to a flat position in the event of power failure
• Wall-hugger Engineering: keeps head in the same position versus bringing you forward and inconveniencing access to side tables when raised
• Therapeutic massage system

Health Benefits of The ErgoStar Adjustable Bed:

 Jeffrey K. Bergin, DC, dean at the National University of Health Sciences in Lombard, Ill. says, “Adjustable beds are like hospital beds which enable you to elevate your legs or upper body.” Patients I know who use them have conditions like hypertension, circulation problems, decubitus ulcers, or congestive heart failure, and they find it difficult to sleep on a flat bed.”

Elevate your upper body to:

• Open your air passages (easy breathing improves health and enables better sleep)
• Prevent acid reflux (sleep through the night without antacids)
• Relieve pressure on shoulders and upper back (reduce tension)
• Sit up and get out of bed (it's easier to get up when you’re in the sitting position)
• Minimize snoring (you'll sleep better and so will your sleep partner)

Elevate your legs to:

• Help prevent cramping (you won't wake at night rubbing your legs)
• Unrestricted blood circulation throughout your extremities and brain
• Relieve stress on your lower back (you won't believe the difference this makes!)
• Knees naturally bend and elevate slightly above the heart. This position takes pressure off the spine as well as allows for increased blood flow to the heart
• Ease swelling of the legs and ease back pain.

Elevate your legs and upper body for:

• Pressure Relief: Natural sleep positions reduce the pressure on your skeletal frame by more than 85% ensuring you will get the deepest most restful sleep possible
• Relieve soreness of the body and soothe neck and shoulder tension.
• Offset acid reflux and overnight heartburn.
• 85% greater pressure relief for certain parts of the body such as the neck, spine and knees.
• Degenerative spondylolisthesis, osteoarthritis, spinal stenosis and other diseases.
• Surgery Recovey
• Relieving the stomach muscles and aiding in proper digestion; passive back stretching, and more. .
• Especially useful for disabled, elderly and invalid users, regardless of whether the handicap is permanent or temporary.

• Arthritis
• Back pain
• Hiatal hernia
• Varicose veins
• Asthma
• Insomnia
• Sleep apnea
• Snoring
• Fibromyalgia

Charles Cefalu, MD, spokesman for the American Geriatrics Society "Anytime you add heat or vibration it does change circulation, whether you're doing it with a mattress or sitting in a chair and using a heating pad and vibrator. The effects of heat and vibration are the same no matter where you do it." "If a special bed does allow elevation, that would be one scientific reason to recommend it," says Cefalu. He says people with asthma, acid reflux disorder, heart failure, or chronic lung disease need to elevate the head of the bed.

• Massage Your Entire Body  with soothing wave massage
• Variable speed rhythmic wave motion
• Temporary relief from symptoms of low back pain
•  Poor local blood circulation of the legs
• Edema or swelling of the legs
• Minor aches and pains caused by muscular fatigue or overexertion
• Nighttime heartburn
• Simple tension

• Superior Wall-hugger engineering smoothly glides towards the wall, making the nightstand close and accessible
• Enables headboard placement at the end of your bed (no forward motion)

Additional Features:

With it you can sit up to:

• Read
• Watch TV
• Snack
• Drink your morning coffee
• Spend some time waking up and planning your day
• No more stacking pillows

• Head and foot on/off buttons on the left and right do the exact same functions on all bed sizes except for full and queen solid beds which have two head and two foot motors
• Massage motors are turned on and will stay on for 30 minutes with the on/off buttons
• After turning on massage motors the timer button can be pressed and the timer lights will turn on in the following order 10, 20, 30 minutes with every press of the timer button
• The M1,M2, M3 buttons are as follows (M1 Low) (M2 Med) (M3 High) intensity
• Head up/down moves the head portion of the bed up and down
• Foot up/down moves the foot portion of the bed up and down
• Flat will put the bed back to an all flat position (head & foot) with one touch of the button
• Zero G button will raise the bed to a factory preset position which raise the knees above the heart and gives a slight lift to the head
   

Ultimate Position In Relaxation:

Maintaining good posture, even when watching TV or reading a book is not only good for your spine, it's now made easier with our new Exclusive Zero Gravity Equipped Adjustable Bed from Astrabeds.com

Origin:

NASA developed the idea of using a zero gravity position from the experiences of astronauts who spent many hours while in orbit. During take-off, astronauts recline with their feet raised higher than their hearts. This zero gravity position reduces the amount of gravitational force exerted by the extreme acceleration it takes to achieve orbit. When you are in an upright standing or sitting position, gravity places pressure on your spine causing discs to compress and the back muscles to tighten to maintain balance. When you are suffering from back pain, this can be extremely uncomfortable. By neutralizing the effects of gravity, your back muscles can rest and your discs can return to their usual normal size and shape. Because of the effects of gravity, this explains why you are taller in the morning than you are at the end of your day. Overnight while sleeping, your back's spinal discs are relieved of the pressures of gravity and the weight of your body.

Benefits:
When you recline in a true Zero Gravity Position, with your legs elevated above your heart and an open angle created between your torso and thighs, a number of good things begin to happen.

The Position- Also sometimes called "90/90" because of the approximate right angles that occur at the hips and knees - immediately puts your back in the correct resting or "neutral" position.   

Since all our body parts are co-dependent, this Zero Gravity modification begins to have beneficial effects in other areas:

Correct Spinal Alignment -The proper neutral position for the 5-curve of your spine is maintained along the three regions of your back: cervical (neck), thoracic (upper back), and lumbar (lower back).

Back Pressure Relief -The lumbar region (lower back), especially, is relieved of almost all pressure. Disc compression is greatly reduced or eliminated completely.

Expanded Lung Capacity -Via the open angle created between the torso and thighs. Breathing is improved, thereby increasing oxygen levels in the blood.

Improved Circulation -With the legs elevated above the heart, stress on the heart is minimized, and the oxygen-rich blood being pumped to fatigued muscles helps them to recover faster.

Overall Stress Relief -The Zero Gravity position approximates the weightless conditions of outer space, in which the body experiences an absolute minimum of internal and external stresses.

Unloading of spinal discs - Human spinal discs have visco-elastic properties. That is, they compress at a decelerating rate when loaded and expand at a decelerating rate when unloaded. Higher loads result in a higher rate of compression. Spinal loading from daily activities will cause shrinkage in stature, of up to 20mm over the day. This transfer of fluid in and out of the disc is the body's mechanism for supplying nutrition to the discs. Spinal discs do not have a direct blood supply, and this osmosis and diffusion is essential to maintaining spinal health. It is unknown how often the spine needs to be "unloaded" during a day to maintain good disc health. Of course, disc fluid transfer is also increased with movement (that is, exercise!). Given that the onset of degenerative spinal changes occurs is commonly at a young age in industrialized societies such as our own, and that these degenerative spinal changes occur only at more advanced ages in primitive societies, it is likely that we need much more unloading and/or exercise in our daily lives than we currently get. Loads on the lumbar spine are reduced in neutral lumbar postures. Technically speaking, the neutral posture is defined as being near the mid-point of the available range-of-motion in that body region.

Relaxation of spinal muscles - The heart pumps blood, full of nutrients and oxygen, to our body parts. Muscles "pump" blood, carrying the waste products of metabolism, back to the heart. The muscle pump works by massaging the blood vessels which pass through them. The pumping massage action occurs as the muscles intermittently contract and relax. During sustained muscle contractions, blood flow through the muscles is restricted or occluded. So it is important that the muscles have intermittent opportunities to relax.

Recommended by many physicians and health care professionals, and it is the closest thing you'll find here on earth to the weightless conditions of outer space.