Not sure which size Body Prop pillow to get? 

Figure 1. Body Prop Classic on a leather club chair, positioned for head or neck support.

The main determining factor is the depth of your seat back, since the pillow needs to drape over the top of the seat and still have enough room for each pillow end to hang down each side of the chair. Then, the intended pillow-end needs to reach the area where you will need it, i.e., head/neck area, or lumbar area.

1. Measure the depth of your chair’s seat back.

Figure 2. Long Body Prop draped over a leather club chair, positioned to support the lumbar or back.

Figure 2 shows the same chair using the LONG pillow, positioned for lumbar support. If this Long pillow was positioned for head and neck support, you can estimate from this photo how much would be hanging over the back.

2. The seat back shown here (on the leather club chair) is 5 inches deep, and you can see in Figure 1 there is plenty of room to adjust the Body Prop CLASSIC. If your seat back depth is LESS THAN 8 inches, then the Classic length should be long enough for most head and neck support, as long as your head or neck is near the top of the seat back when you’re seated in the chair.

Figure 3. LONG Body Prop on a recliner with a seat back 8.5″ deep at center. (The edges of this seat back flare out to about 10″ deep.)

Figure 3 shows a rotating view of LONG Body Prop on a recliner with a thicker seat back. If your seat back depth is GREATER THAN 8 inches, then you should consider using the LONG Body Prop for head and neck support so it’s long enough to span the seat back and also offer versatility and adjustability.

3. For further testing, sit in the chair and determine where you need support.

4. Consider the lengths of the various Body Prop pillow pieces shown here and make sure the pillow will reach your intended resting position. Note that both Body Prop pillows are identical except for neck length.

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by Victoria Hunter Closson, Bone™ and Body Prop™ inventor

Originally posted on November 24, 2014

The new Body Prop pillows should be available during the first week of December 2014. We still have a few Backbone pillows in stock, so this will help you decide which version will work for you. [Bone pillows are discontinued and sold out.] This page should also help current Bone pillow owners understand what changes were made and why.

About the new Body Prop – Click to enlarge

See the new Body Prop on this page, shown in the Long style. Body Props come in two lengths:
– LONG (~38″)
– CLASSIC (~26″)
They are identical except for length. The photo nearby identifies the parts.

Note that many of the photos throughout the site may still depict the Bone pillows unless otherwise noted. This is because, until we get the new product and have time to photograph them, we only have prototypes to photograph, and they are not sufficient. We’ll update the website photos with time, but the Bone photos depict the same usage. (Customer photos are always welcome!)

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The original Bone pillows have two bulbous ends. That’s because I originally invented the product for head and neck support: specifically, it needed to fill the void of space in the nape of the neck, so that’s why it was bulbous. When people started using the original Headbone pillow for back support, I added Backbone — the longer version of Headbone — to the line. I personally hated the feel of the bulb protruding into my back but thought, hey, to each his own — some people obviously like it. I always wanted to make a non-back-stabbing version of my pillow for lumbar support and fiddled and tested many varieties before arriving at what you see here: The Body Prop, best of both worlds, with EACH support option — concave and convex — both in the same device.

Not only does the new concave pillow-end feel good on your back for a more traditional-type lumbar support, but it also serves as a face-catcher when you use it as neck support because the flared edges support your face if you roll your head to the side. That’s a bonus for all you upright nappers out there.

I am very happy with the result and hope you will be too. Please share your thoughts or questions in the comments below or via Facebook, Twitter, or through our contact page here.