Whenever someone wants to sit up and read in bed, then they can use one of the available backrest pillows. By using such a pillow, they can rest their back comfortably against the head of the bed.

Whenever someone has neck problems, they can benefit from the availability of neck pillows. Such pillows have been designed to support tender neck muscles.

Generally, the situations that call for a combination pillow/backrest differ from the situations that create a need for some sort of special neck pillow. Yet, there is one particular medical problem that can create a need for both a backrest and a neck pillow. That medical problem has been documented in one particular type of high risk pregnancy.

When women who had been given ventricular shunts began to reach child bearing age, obstetricians did not know how they could handle the pressure caused by a growing baby. Neurosurgeons had not started using shunts until some time in the 1950s, and then only in children. Not until the 1960s did neurosurgeons start putting ventricular shunts in adults.

Now when women with shunts first started to have babies, it seemed that they would not have any special problems. Then one woman developed a headache. Her obstetrician found that the pressure created by the growing child in her uterus had blocked the flow of cerebrospinal fluid. That fluid was accumulating in the ventricles of her brain.

The obstetrician suggested that his pregnant patient sleep sitting up. Obviously that suggestion underlined the importance of backrest pillows, during certain pregnancies. At the same time, the idea of a woman sleeping in a sitting position points to an accompanying need for neck pillows.

Thus, a medical situation that doctors never dealt with until roughly thiry years ago has underscored a reason for teaming a combination backrest/pillow with some sort of neck pillow.

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