Foot Levelers Secures Patent for Nexi® Custom Pillow Bringing Personalized Support to Sleep

The new patent recognizes industry-leading technology created from 130,000 individualized data points to help alleviate tech neck, common aches and pains, and discomfort caused by sleep apnea.

ROANOKE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foot Levelers, the leader in custom orthotics and postural support, today announced its patent for The Nexi^® Custom Pillow, a revolutionary new advancement in personalized sleep technology. Nexi (Neck Ergonomics with Intelligence) Custom Pillows are custom crafted using precise measurements of a patient’s head, neck, shoulders, and posture captured by Foot Levelers’ Posture Check 3D^® proprietary scanning technology.

“Like a custom mouth retainer or an eyeglass prescription, The Nexi Custom Pillow is made specifically for you. Our technology scans 130,000 points of the body to identify your unique posture and support needs. That information is used to create a pillow designed to position and support your head and neck throughout the night, helping promote optimal sleep posture and support the natural cervical curve,” said Jamie Greenawalt, Foot Levelers’ President.

“That matters because we spend so much of the day looking down at phones and computers, placing our necks in prolonged forward positions,” she continued. “Sleep gives us hours each night to do the opposite—to support better alignment and give the cervical spine an opportunity to return toward its natural position.”

Nexi builds on Foot Levelers’ long history of innovation in postural care. In 1969, Foot Levelers invented the world’s first cervical pillow, pioneering an approach to supporting the cervical spine during sleep. Today, Nexi brings that legacy forward with Posture Check 3D and AI-driven customization technology, giving healthcare professionals a comprehensive view of a patient’s posture and helping identify imbalances that may contribute to back, neck, and joint discomfort.

According to the CDC, poor sleep is a persistent health issue for tens of millions of Americans. A National Sleep Foundation survey found that 6 out of 10 adults don’t get enough sleep with only 7 percent giving their sleep satisfaction an “A” rating. Physical discomfort and poor sleep posture can make quality rest even more difficult. “We get fitted for everything important, yet spend about a third of our lives sleeping and still buy pillows off the shelf. Nexi is proper sleep for optimal health,” Greenawalt said.

The Nexi Custom Pillow features a two-sided design. One side uses responsive Intellicel^™ and pressure-relieving Bioalign^™ materials to cradle the head and neck and help maintain healthy alignment during restorative sleep. The recovery side incorporates Theracel^™, which offers rehabilitative support for acute cervical conditions during periods of neck pain, tension or recovery. The pillow can also be customized to accommodate a CPAP mask for those with sleep apnea.

The Nexi Custom Pillow launched in 2025 and is available through licensed healthcare providers. Learn more: footlevelers.com

ABOUT FOOT LEVELERS

Foot Levelers, the world’s leading provider of hand-crafted custom orthotics, has been serving healthcare professionals since 1952. Foot Levelers is the only custom orthotics system built from a detailed 3D scan that captures 410,000 data points about the feet and posture. Each pair is designed to support each individual’s unique postural needs to improve whole-body alignment from the ground up, and is prescribed by a licensed healthcare provider. Stabilizing orthotics help properly support the back, knees, hips, pelvis, and even neck by providing a balanced and symmetrical foundation. Foot Levelers orthotics are proven to reduce lower back pain by 34%.

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