Dr. Erwin Ploberger has tried everything that could be described as a bed, hard and soft, short and long, in synthetic and natural materials. There is no doubt for the 50 year-old doctor that the waterbed is the best. He cannot support his statement with scientifically documented proof, but "only" with his own experience and ordinary common sense, as he says. "Personally I can say quite unambiguously that I have been in less pain after buying a waterbed.
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Over and above this I feel purely logically that there can only be a question of two elements that can be used as anatomically correct supports: air and water. I prefer water because it shapes itself completely in accordance with the bodies of different individuals, and the warmth of a waterbed is another great advantage because it relaxes the muscles," explains Dr. Ploberger, who bought his waterbed four years ago. His almost two meter tall body, which is afflicted with a slipped disk, had at the time tried out beds of all kinds.
"In the mornings he stood brushing his teeth completely bent over. It took two to three hours before Erwin could straighten his long body out," relates his wife, Andrea, who was not particularly interested in sleeping in a waterbed. "I imagined the most peculiar things, just as people tend to generally when the talk turns to waterbeds: that the bed moves during the night, that you can get seasick and that the mattress makes your sex life more difficult. But people must just go by trial and error. And that is impossible to explain to them," says Andrea.
"I used to play basketball several times a week for many years, and all the jumping up and down in front of the basket puts a tremendous strain on the joints," relates Dr. Ploberger, who also informs us that people are only operated on for a slipped disk in Austria when they lose sensation in their legs. Dr. Ploberger does not believe that an operation will be necessary in his case. He has found a combination that can keep his handicap at bay – riding every day on the couple's big thoroughbred and sleeping in their waterbed at night.
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