Low-Back Pain Keeping You Awake? These Are The 10 Best Mattresses For Relief

This hybrid mattress gets high marks from those with back and hip pain, thanks to its combination of supportive innersprings and soft, pillowy gel foam. Winkbed offers their signature bed in multiple firmness levels, and they make it easy to trade in one model for another if you end up needing something different. Those who sleep on their backs might want to start with the firmer model or the plus, designed for heavier sleepers.

Winkbed also offers a 120-night warranty, and they'll pick your mattress up and refund you 100% if you're not satisfied. Bonus: This mattress comes with a generous lifetime warranty (and is pretty affordable to begin with). One downside is it's made with synthetic foam and doesn't have many sustainability merits to its name.

Eco-friendliness rating: 2 out of 5. Beyond using recycled metal for the innerspring coils, this bed doesn’t have many sustainability credentals. The brand does, however, make a latex hybrid mattress, the EcoCloud Hybrid Mattress, which is slightly softer but uses natural Talalay latex and organic wool.

This medium-firm hybrid is just the right feel for stomach sleepers who also need some pain relief in their lower backs. This upgraded design of the brand's original mattress has an added layer of lumbar support, which gives the firmer feel that stomach sleepers love. It also features reinforced edges—more room for couples and individual sleepers to sprawl out (without rolling off). Free of polyurethane foams, this mattress contains organic wool, organic cotton, and natural latex, making it a nontoxic dream.

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4 out of 5. Birch’s eco-friendly certifications make this mattress a great sustainable pick. The wool is sourced through the Wool Integrity NZ Program, meaning it meets best practice standards and strict animal welfare codes. The Talalay latex is 100% natural, derived from rubber trees in Asia, Africa, and Brazil. The organic cotton is Fair Trade and GOTS certified. We also appreciate that Birch will donate or recycle your mattress if you end up returning it. What's not so green is the extensive packaging that boxes this mattress up.

This mattress uses multiple layers of poly memory foam to create plenty of cushion and take pressure off sensitive areas like the back and hips. While not the most sustainable option on the list, it's a good pick for sleepers who like that sensation of sinking into memory foam—but still need some added firmness to keep their spine aligned.

While memory foam traditionally sleeps warm, this mattress comes with an optional cooling cover to take off some heat. Helix offers tons of other sleep accessories too (think weighted blankets and mattress protectors) for a convenient one-stop sleep shop.

Eco-friendliness rating: 1 out of 5. This mattress is made from memory foam, and while the foams have the bare minimum CertiPUR-US® certification, there are no additional sustainability efforts, with a great deal of synthetic materials.

An affordable pick as it relates to nontoxic mattresses, this brand hits all the sustainability marks. The mattress is made from all-natural, non-toxic materials such as organic cotton, organic wool, and Rainforest Alliance–certified Dunlop latex. The brand also doesn't use any chemical adhesives or chemical fire retardants.

The medium-firm hybrid design is great for people with back and shoulder pain, combining pressure-relieving Dunlop latex with individually wrapped coils for targeted support to your shoulders, back, and hips. The coils minimize motion transfer, while the latex is naturally cooling. The wool is moisture-wicking, so this truly is a cooling option as well.

What's more, your purchase includes sheets, pillows, and a mattress protector. We also recommend this mattress for stomach and side sleepers, couples, people with neck or back pain, and those who enjoy the feel of a great pillow-top mattress.

Eco-friendliness rating: 4.5 out of 5 This mattress has a slew of eco-friendly certifications, such as Rainforest Alliance, GREENGUARD Gold, and the Standard 100 by OEKO-TEX. For every purchase, the brand plants 10 trees through trees.org. The only con is that the mattress is wrapped in plastic for delivery.

Avocado's classic mattress is a hybrid with innerspring and certified organic wool, latex, and cotton. It features five ergonomic zones for back and spine alignment and even weight distribution. And while it might be slightly too firm for side sleepers, it's a great pick for back or stomach sleepers. We've featured this mattress on many of our round ups, including the best latex mattresses, the best mattresses for stomach sleepers, and more.

As a B Corp–certified company, Avocado is a standout in the sustainability space. When you shop with them, you can expect a commitment to ethical sourcing, donations to environmental nonprofits, and carbon negativity (meaning they offset more than 100% of their total emissions).

Eco-friendliness rating: 5 out of 5. Beyond using organic and sustainably-sourced materials, Avocado is a brand that walks the walk. It’s a carbon-negative company, which means the brand voluntarily offsets more than 100% of its emissions, and provides a yearly impact report on sustainability efforts.

This luxurious bed is made from natural, organic materials and designed with comfort in mind. It contains layers of latex that can be flipped for different comfort levels (the firmer side will likely be best for those with back pain) and is topped with temperature-regulating wool for those who run hot. Saatva sleepers note that the ergonomic design of the bed means that every part of the body—head to toe—feels supported as they sleep. "My back has never felt better" is one review you'll see quite a bit. Oh, and it's flippable, too.

It's Saatva's commitment to safety and sustainability that make this one a real standout. The mattress doesn't contain any synthetic, petroleum-based foams and it's certified free of potentially harmful chemicals and pollutants. Considering its high-quality materials, the price point on this one is also pretty reasonable.

Eco-friendliness rating: 4 out of 5. While not the most eco-friendly brand on this list, Saatva does more than most memory foam mattress companies when it comes to sustainability and nontoxic materials. It uses a nontoxic, botanical antimicrobial treatment, certified foams, organic cotton, and a flame retardant barrier made from natural thistle pulp (rather than chemical sprays). This particular mattress it one of the brand's most sustainable models, and gets a high score because of the use of natural latex and organic cotton.

This affordable mattress-in-a-box stacks three layers of foam for a comfortable yet supportive snooze for stomach sleepers (though it's soft enough for side sleepers, too!). The top layer of this cloud mattress is a cooling foam for anyone who sleeps warm. Reviewers with back pain note that the foam distributes pressure beautifully, easing aches and promoting pain-free wakeups. While it's made from synthetic memory foam, Leesa does test its mattresses to ensure they're low in VOCs.

Leesa's mattress comes with a 100-night free trial and 10-year warranty, and their customer service has a great reputation.

Eco-friendliness rating: 2 out of 5. We appreciate that the foams are GREENGUARD Gold & CertiPUR-US® Certified, but these are not the most extensive certifications. It is a certified B Corporation, though, which means it's held to rigorous standards for public transparency, legal accountability, and environmental impact.

Prepare to wake up in the future with Eight Sleep's smart mattress equipped with sensors that track your sleep through the night, and adjust accordingly. Log into the accompanying app to set your personalized sleep temperature, track your nightly heart rate, and have your mattress wake you up with a gentle vibration. The ultimate sleep gadget, this one is sure to please anyone tech-obsessed.

The Pod 3 Mattress itself is made from layers of poly foam that offer gentle pressure relief for the back and hips.

Eco-friendliness rating: 1 out of 5. When you're talking about a vibrating mattress with technology that tracks your sleep and warms or cools to your personalized sleep temperature, it's not going to be the most sustainable option. The brand does not follow any particular environmental practices yet.

"Affordable" and "latex" often don't belong in the same sentence, as the natural bedding material is more expensive than synthetic foams. But Nolah's hybrid latex mattress, which also features organic wool and an organic cotton cover, starts at less than $1,000. It's a great affordable mattress option for anyone curious to try the plush, cozy feel of natural latex without shelling out a ton. Its medium feel is a bit softer than other beds on the list, but it's ideal for side sleepers who need a little added softness. And it's still firm enough to be supportive, as evidenced by many reviewers who say it's helped their pesky back pain.

Eco-friendliness rating: 4 out of 5. This brand uses high quality, sustainable materials including recycled steel coils, GOTS-certified organic wool, organic cotton, and natural Talalay latex. That said, the mattresses are wrapped in plastic for shipping.

One of our favorite hybrid mattresses, this is also a great option for hot sleepers, as the top foam layer is infused with cooling gel. Nest beds are made from synthetic foams, but they air out in the factory to decrease off-gassing a bit.

Couples love this bed, too, as the Split King size of the Sparrow Signature Hybrid allows bed sharers to choose their own firmness level (medium, plush, or firm) using interchangeable layers you can swap for free. Four layers of foam and a layer of innerspring mean that any firmness you choose will comfortably distribute pressure.

Nest offers free returns within one year, and their beds come with a lifetime renewal exchange program that lets you get a new comfort layer any time your current one is starting to sag—a plus for back pain sufferers who need the support.

Eco-friendliness rating: 2 out of 5. This bed doesn’t contain any organic or sustainably-sourced materials, but we do appreciate the Renewal Exchange initiative, which can help extend the life of your Nest mattress. For a more sustainable pick, check out the brand’s Owl Natural Latex Hybrid.