In 2011 I was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea, as well as serious snoring. Each night I would go to bed and think I was sleeping through the night; however, I was in fact suffocating day by day from as many as 25 incidents per hour in which my throat would be occluded and I would literally stop breathing. Sometimes with a gasp, I would wake up and wonder what had happened to arouse me. Most of the time I might gasp for air and simply return to sleep, unaware of the incident. My wife had to finally move to a separate room, emotionally and physically exhausted from this ongoing nightmare of both apnea and snoring. After a clinical sleep study confirmed sleep apnea, the doctor advised me to use a CPAP respirator. The CPAP was set to a very high inspiration pressure equal to about 25 cm of water pressure required to maintain my open breathing channel. Unfortunately, that high pressure not only inflated my face, but also made breathing extremely uncomfortable, making sleep extremely difficult. Finally, I rejected the CPAP and decided to simply live with the apnea condition. My mind was changed however, when my doctor said that I either must accept CPAP therapy or anticipate heart failure or other serious medical conditions. While examining my sleep study reports, she noted that my apnea arousals dropped very low during periods in which I slept on my side. My doctor confirmed that this observation was now medically acknowledged. He suggested I use some form of blocking device that could prevent a back or supine sleeping position. His suggestion was to wear tennis balls in a brazier on my back. As an inventor (with 15 of my own patents) I resolved to find a better way. Over ten years of experimentation, including many sleepless nights which helped me to identify many of the common sleep stressors, I developed a pillow that could easily swing from side to side, allowing me to comfortably block supine sleeping. Over the next five years, I worked to perfect an ideal system in which a blocking pillow could be positioned and controlled by the user while lying in bed. Joined by the efforts of a designer, Matt Chapman, we spent twelve months perfecting various models of such an ideal back pillow that could protect against supine sleep. Such blocking techniques are now medically referred to as part of “positional therapy” as an accepted procedure to help control sleep apnea and snoring. These features are now available through various products being offered by Rem-Scape LLC. These wearable back pillows are adapted with practical features that are uniquely covered by issued and pending United States and foreign patents. You can discover these for yourself on this website.