Yes, you should rotate your mattress, because turning it head to foot spreads body weight across the surface and slows the body impressions that form where you sleep every night.
Mattress care
Should you rotate your mattress?
Rotation matters most for innerspring and hybrid mattresses, where the coils under your hips and shoulders take the heaviest load. All-foam mattresses benefit too, since the comfort layer compresses unevenly over time. Rotating a mattress won't rescue a bed that's already sagging, but it helps keep support consistent and can stretch the point at which you need to replace it.
- Rotation turns the mattress 180 degrees, so the head end becomes the foot end.
- Hybrid mattresses combine individually pocketed coils with 2 or more inches of foam comfort layers, and both layers wear unevenly.
- Flipping is a different move from rotating, and it only applies to flippable or dual-firmness constructions, not to one-sided beds.
- Innerspring mattresses rest on an interconnected coil grid with minimal foam above it, so wear shows up in the coils first.