While researching mattresses, I ended up watching an Intellibed youtube video and it included pressure mapping. Of course it showed that Intellibed was the best.
Questions:
1-Is pressure mapping a legit way to objectively measure pressure relief?
2-Have you ever brought your own pressure map to a mattress store to use it? What did you find out?
3-Did your subjective feeling of pressure relief always agree with the objective pressure map findings or did they often disagree?
Great questions and I’ll try to help you with some answers since I look at this already myself.
Short answer is yes, pressure mapping allows you to analyze pressure relief really well but it does not address alignment (although the two can be inter-related).
No, the prices on them are insane unless you’re a business that can write off the expense (ie Mattress Designers, Mattress Retailers, and Medical Professionals)
I would love to have one but I haven’t been able to try one yet so no idea.
If someone knows of cheaper alternatives that works well I’m all ears (I’d buy one up to the $1k range but $7.2k is way out of my wheelhouse)
