How do you deal with shoulder night pain? If you are suffering from chronic shoulder pain due to a rotator cuff injury, you know how difficult it can be to get a good night’s sleep. Our bodies use sleep to heal. If you are not sleeping, you are not healing effectively.

I find heat to be very effective before bed. I will use a warm compress or a hot bath to sooth and relief my aching shoulder muscles. This helps them to relax. It also makes them more flexible.

It hurts when I lie directly on my affected shoulder. So I generally try to fall asleep on my back first. But I also like to toss and turn and sleep on my side, so this is difficult.

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I found that I can arrange extra pillows in lots of different ways to help support my body. Sometimes I stuff them under my affected shoulder. This helps to cushion my injury and to better distribute my body weight.

Sometimes I’ll make a trough or valley between the pillows. I can lean back against them slightly and they will take some of the weight off my shoulder.

Pillows also give my arm somewhere to go. Even if I sleep on my good side, I find that my arm puts a lot of torque on my shoulder. I find that if I can rest my arm on a pillow in front of me, I don’t put as much strain on my rotator cuff injury.

For more information on treating sleep shoulder pain, recovering from shoulder pain, and strengthening your rotator cuff muscles, please see our recommended rotator cuff therapy guide.

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