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Preparing for shoulder surgery? Start with better sleep.
Surgery is stressful enough. Sort your sleep set-up before the operation, and you come home to a bed that's ready to help you recover — from night one.
Poor sleep isn't 'just part of recovery'
Most people don't think about sleep until they're home in a sling, exhausted and uncomfortable at 2am, building a nest out of sofa cushions. It doesn't have to go that way. Slings are designed for standing — they lose their support the moment you lie down — and the fear of rolling onto the operated shoulder keeps many patients sleeping upright in a chair for weeks. A prepared sleep set-up removes all of that before it starts.
The Shoulder Sleeper Pillow™
Designed to hold your arm at the recommended post-surgical angle, the Shoulder Sleeper keeps the shoulder supported and protected all night. It stops you rolling onto the surgical site, eases night-time pain, and lets many patients sleep in their own bed rather than weeks in an armchair.
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Your countdown to surgery day
Three simple milestones, and you'll walk in calm and come home ready.
12–3 weeks before: order your recovery kit
Get your Shoulder Sleeper Pillow™ delivered well before your date — not after surgery, when you're in pain and short on sleep. Order early so there's time to try it on and choose the right side and size.
21 week before: set up and practise
Learn how the straps work and practise putting the pillow on one-handed — that's how you'll do it after surgery. Arrange phone, water and medication within reach of your good arm.
3The night before: make everything ready
You'll want to go straight to bed when you come home. Pillows in place, loose button-front clothing laid out, and one final test of the full sleep set-up.
4Surgery day: you're ready
You've done the hard part — planning ahead. Recovery starts the moment you get home, and your bed is already working for you.
“The patients who prepare their sleep environment before surgery consistently have better outcomes. They sleep better, comply better with protocols, and report less pain in the first week.”
Why prepared patients do better
You sleep in a bed, not a chair
With the pillow ready and the bed set up, most people stay in their own bed from night one instead of weeks upright in a recliner.
No learning curve at 2am
Straps and positioning are easy to figure out beforehand — and very hard one-handed, in pain, on the first night home.
Week one sets up week two
Rest in the first week means the energy to start physiotherapy properly in the second. Recovery compounds.
Prepare your sleep set-up before surgery
Order the pillow in time to practise with it before your date — side and size chosen, straps figured out, bed ready.
Shop the PillowAnd get the free guide
Our eBook, Preparing for Shoulder Surgery, walks through the full checklist — home set-up, clothing, medication logistics and the first two weeks. Request it on the homepage and we'll email it to you straight away.