The Best Hybrid Mattresses for Couples, Back Pain, and More (2025)

The Bear Elite Hybrid offers three firmness levels to choose from: standard soft, medium, and firm. However, if there's one thing that testers with back pain on our team believe in, it's the power of a firm mattress for support. Two WIRED reviewers have tested this mattress: Martin Cizmar and Nena Farrell. Both regularly deal with back pain, and found that the firm Bear Elite Hybrid model really did the trick for lumbar support. They note that while it feels quite firm at first, the mattress feels more and more welcoming as time goes on.

The mattress cover uses phase change material, which sucks up heat and makes it feel cool to the touch. If you have incredibly awful back pain, though, you may want to consider the $210 Celliant cover, an infrared-infused fabric. We haven't tried it, but it supposedly helps with recovery. You've also got copper-infused foam for even more cooling, plus transition foam for pressure relief purposes. Surprise, surprise, there's also zoned pocketed coils, so those coils located in the middle are doing the heavy lifting.

I always empathize with couples attempting to mattress shop, because it's always a tall order trying to find a suitable bed for two of everything: body types, sleeping positions, temperature preferences, and pain points. The Wolf Memory Foam Hybrid Premium Firm is a well-rounded, supportive hybrid mattress for couples (and their extracurriculars, if you catch my drift).

Its cooling cover does an outstanding job of staying cool-feeling, with a gel foam layer underneath that provides extra support. Four more layers of memory foam are present for pressure relief purposes, which, from experience, it more than delivers on. You then have your pocketed coils in the middle, which lift heavier areas with firmer-feeling support. Overall, I ranked it as a medium-firm, 6.5 out of 10, that was doable for all kinds of sleepers regardless of their build or sleeping position.