Founder disclosure
Lilja Thorsteinsdottir
Founder of Snoozle · Editor of How to Sleep Without Pain
Based in Iceland
LinkedInWhy this site exists
A surprisingly basic problem sits behind this project: some people have difficulty repositioning themselves in bed, but may never hear that friction-reducing sheets are a product category at all. How to Sleep Without Pain is an attempt to explain that problem, the available product types, and the evidence without pretending we know more than we do.
I created Snoozle, a tubular slide sheet designed for the person in the bed to use themselves at home and to remain on the bed while sleeping. That gives me direct product knowledge, but it also gives me an obvious commercial interest. Both facts belong on the page.
Commercial relationship
How to Sleep Without Pain is published by the team behind Snoozle. Links to Snoozle can therefore lead to a product sold by the people publishing this site. Retail availability, insurer programmes or use of slide sheets elsewhere are not presented as independent clinical endorsement of Snoozle.
What we can speak to directly
- Snoozle's design, materials, intended use, instructions and consumer positioning, with product facts checked against the current official product information.
- The difference between Snoozle's self-use/all-night intended use and clinical slide-sheet systems used in assisted moving and repositioning.
- Published research on friction-reducing repositioning systems, when the original task, product and study limitations remain attached to the finding.
- Our own exploratory survey methods and results, with the founder conflict, customer-only sample and lack of causal inference stated explicitly.
What this site is not qualified to decide for you
A general web page should not decide a person's post-operative precautions, neurological movement strategy, diagnosis-specific positioning, fall plan or treatment. During the August 2026 content review, pages that crossed that line were removed from public navigation rather than rewritten by AI into different medical instructions.
There is also no blanket claim on this site that every article has been clinically reviewed. When a page relies on external evidence, the source and the limit of that evidence should be visible on that page.
The editorial rule now
Product fact, published evidence, user report and hypothesis are different kinds of information. Howgem's job is to label them as different things. If a claim cannot yet be supported confidently, the better answer is “we do not know yet” — and, where possible, to design a measurement that could answer it.
Start with the maintained pages
This site provides product and educational information. It does not diagnose or treat medical conditions. Snoozle is positioned as a consumer home-use product and not as a medical device.