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Doctor's CHoice Mattress for Back Pain

Doctor's Choice for Back Pain

Back Science® Essentials Mattress

  • 7 Layers of Adaptive Support at 10-Inch Thickness
  • Bed-in-a-Box Compressed Roll-Packed for Easy Transport
  • Versatile, Luxury Firm Model Made for All Sleeping Positions
  • Doctor-Designed and Recommended to Prevent Back Pain
  • 2-Inch Adaptive Hypergel Surface Reduces Pressure Points
  • High-Density, Extra-Supportive Foam Base
  • 20-Year Limited Warranty at 2Xs Strength over Other Brands
  • 100% USA-Made (Manufacturing & Materials)
  • Greenguard® Gold Certified Safe and Hypoallergenic
  • Try It Risk-Free with Our 366-Night Sleep Trial

Universal Comfort Adapts to Your Body

Buoyant, 2-inch hypergel and 1-inch thick Essence surface layers give the Essential a luxury firm lifting support that contours to your body and reduces muscle and joint pressure-points. While not as robust as the series 2, the Essentials provides solid support for side, back, and stomach sleepers at an affordable price.

Interlocking Zoned Lumbar Support for the Back

Our patent-pending Lumbar-Flex™ interlocking lumbar support sits higher in the mattress without sticking out like a speed bump, giving you the most effective zoning to prevent hammocking of the midsection.

Sleeps Cooler All Night Long

Hypergel surface adds buoyancy that provides a cooler sleep all night long.

All Positions

Back, Side, Stomach, and Mixed Sleepers

  • Those who prefer a luxury firm surface feel
  • Those who want a more economical way to get good back support
  • Toss-and-turners who need support in all positions

Depth: 10.0"

Twin: 38" x 75"

TwinXL: 38" x 80"

Full: 54" x 75"

Queen: 60" x 80"

Eastern King: 76" x 80"

California King: 72" x 84"

Split E-King: 2X (38" x 80")

Split Cal-King: 2X (36" x 84")

$800 - $1,799

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Luxury firm feel

Luxury firm mattress feel gives you pressure-relieving support in all sleeping positions.

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PostureFlex™ Lifting Support

Hypergel surface actively lifts to fill in the gaps in your contour and keep you supported on the surface of the mattress without the pressure points.

Lumbar-Flex™ Zoned Support

Zoned lumbar support targets your lower back and lifts your hips up without pushing against your shoulders. Higher placement offers over 2Xs more zoned support than spring-based zoning.

Doctor-Designed & Tested

Designed by our Head of Product Development, Chiropractor Dr. Rick Swartzburg, D.C. and tested by an array of qualified doctors and healthcare practitioners.

Greenguard® Gold Certified

Our mattresses have been tested by UL Labs and earned a Greenguard® Gold Ceritfication for low VOC emissions under the strictest testing standards in the world used for schools & children indoor air quality.

Strongest warranty in the industry!

Stay protected twice as strong for 3Xs as long with our best-in-class, 30-year limited warranty.
Our mattresses are made in the U.S.A. using only 100% U.S. materials, cover-to-cover.
Try it risk-free for a whole year with free exchanges, comfort adjustments, and returns. No restocking fees, ever.

What the Essentials has to offer

Zoned Lumbar Support

Lumbar-Flex™ zoning offers extra support under your lumbar to promote proper spinal alignment while taking pressure off your shoulders and legs.

Weightless Floating Support

Our Posture-Flex™ hypergel offers a pressure-relieving surface that contours to your body and keeps you floating on top of the mattress, instead of sinking in.

Orthopedic Design

Our 7-layer design gradually transitions from the softer surface to the firmer base layers to cradle your body and prevent “bottoming out” on the mattress.

Doctor-Designed & Recommended

After over 25 years of testing and development by Dr. Rick Swartzburg, D.C. - Back Science is recommended by doctors, surgeons, and healthcare professionals alike.

Bamboo Cradling Comfort

Our Kool-Flow™ cover uses 100% viscose of bamboo to stretch and contour to your body, and comes with microvented knitting for breathability and coolness.

Quick & Easy Adjustments

If needed, the GripLock™ modular cover system unzips for easy access to the inside layers, allowing for quick, easy, and free comfort adjustments from afar during trial without the hastle of shipping.

7 layers of advanced support

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Essentials Mattress Cover

Kool-Flow™ Bamboo Cover

  • Luxury cover is uses 100% viscose of bamboo and a microvented knitting for unbeatable breathability that keeps you cool all night long.
  • Stretches to allow the mattress to truly contour to your body and fill in the gaps in your support, while relieving pressure-points.
  • GripLock™ modular zipper system keeps layers held in tight while allowing for easy access to the insides, in case you need to adjust the firmness later.
Essentials mattress hypergel layer

Flex-Comfort™ Hypergel Surface

  • Softer, gentler surface takes pressure off your shoulders, hips, and joints to help prevent pain and discomfort
  • Lifts up to fill in the gaps in your support, promoting optimal
    spinal alignment and keeping you floating on the surface, instead of
    sinking down in.
  • Adapts to the bumps and curves of your body to provide personalized, contouring comfort and support
PostureFlex™ hypergel layer

PostureFlex™ Hypergel Lift Layer

  • Provides greater lift and resistance, offering transitional support from the softer top layers to the firmer bottom layers for a more orthopaedic design.
  • Lifts up to fill in the gaps in your support, promoting optimal spinal alignment and keeping you floating on the surface, instead of sinking down in.
  • Adapts to the bumps and curves of your body to provide personalized, contouring comfort and support.
Essence transitional support layer

Essence™ Transitional Support Layer

  • Provides a firmer, more resistant support to reinforce the responsive hypergel layers on the surface.
  • Smooths out the transition from the softer top layers to the firmer bottom layers for a more orthopaedic design that's gentler on the body.
  • Quick-response foam springs back to add to the buoyant, "hybrid" feel of the mattress.
Lumbar-Flex™ zone interlace

Lumbar-Flex™ Zone Interlace

  • Interlocking lumbar zone provides extra support in the midsection — where most people are heaviest — to prevent dipping and sinking into the mattress and promote proper spinal alignment.
  • Zoned design allows the upper and lower body the contour and adaptability they need while properly supporting the hips and taking pressure off the lower lumbar and shoulders.
  • Interlace design makes this piece easily removable should you need to make an adjustment in your support to provide additional pressure-relief on the hips
Channeled transitional support layer

HD-Flex™ Channeled Support Layer

  • High-density flex-foam provides additional reinforcement to strengthen the mattress and prevent sinking in.
  • Channeled design supports the lumbar zone interlace for easy adjustment and promotes a more "hybrid" mattress feel.
ResiliFlex™ base support foam core

Extra-Strength ResiliFlex™ Support Core

  • Provides a robust foundation to strengthen and reinforce the structure of the mattress at its core.
  • Dense construction absorbs force to prevent motion-transfer — and give the mattress a more stable, "solid" feel — so you won't have to feel your partner's movements.
  • Ultra-durable, high-resiliency support foam outlasts cheap, low-count coil systems to provide lasting support that won't give out on you. Backed by our double-strength, 20-year Essentials™ limited warranty*.

*Double-strength limited warranty protects you against dipping and sagging in the mattress of over 3/4-inch vs. most other mattress warranties which don't cover until you dip 1.5 inches down into the mattress.

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