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Sleeping After Surgery & Mastectomy Recovery

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A woman has her back examined by a physician. If you're facing back surgery, understanding how to sleep after back surgery is critical for healing. Learn more in our guide.

How to Sleep After Back Surgery: Your Recovery Positioning Guide

If you have back surgery coming up or just had the procedure, here's what your surgeon probably spent about 30 seconds on: how you'll actually sleep while your spine heals....
Tagged: Back Pain Back Surgery General Surgery Orthopedic Surgery
A woman struggles with insomnia while in bed. Insomnia after surgery is extremely common. Get the healing rest you need and deserve in our full guide.

Insomnia After Surgery: What to Expect and How to Protect Your Rest

If you have surgery coming up or just had a procedure, here's something your surgical team probably didn't emphasize: your sleep is about to face serious challenges. Post-surgical insomnia affects...
Tagged: Back Surgery General Surgery Mastectomy Recovery Orthopedic Surgery
A woman clutches her shoulder in pain. Getting good sleep after shoulder can be extremely challenging. Learn which sleeping positions after shoulder surgery can help you maximize recovery in our comprehensive guide.

Sleeping After Shoulder Surgery: Your Complete Guide to Recovery

Shoulder surgery recovery presents a unique challenge that other surgeries simply don't: your arm needs to stay still, but your arm is also essential for getting comfortable in bed. Whether...
Tagged: General Surgery Orthopedic Orthopedic Surgery Sleeping Positions
A woman clutches her hip in pain. Hip pain affects millions worldwide and its impact on sleep can be devastating. Learn how to sleep with hip pain in our complete guide.

How to Sleep with Hip Pain: Your Complete Guide to Pain-Free Nights

2:47 AM. You're wide awake again, hip throbbing, turning your comfortable bed into a source of frustration as you search for any position that won't send shooting pains down your...
Tagged: General Surgery Orthopedic Orthopedic Surgery Pain Sleeping Positions
A woman rests in bed using the Sleep Again Pillow System. If you're looking for the best bed rest pillow, we've got your covered.

The Ultimate Bed Rest Pillow: Your Complete Guide to Recovery Comfort

Recovery isn't exactly a walk in the park. Whether you're bouncing back from surgery or managing chronic pain, spending extended time in bed can feel like a special kind of...
Tagged: Back Sleeping Back Surgery Better Sleep Cosmetic Surgery Disabled Elderly General Surgery Orthopedic Orthopedic Surgery Pain Sleeping Positions
A woman rests in a hospital bed following neck surgery. Learn more about how to get the rest and sleep you need after cervical neck surgery in our comprehensive guide.

How to Sleep After Cervical Neck Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide

When you're recovering from cervical neck surgery, that precious healing rest your body desperately needs seems frustratingly out of reach. The delicate nature of neck procedures, combined with post-operative discomfort...
Tagged: Back Pain Back Surgery Orthopedic Orthopedic Surgery
A woman recovers in a hospital bed after ACL surgery. Sleeping after ACL surgery can be challenging. To boost healing and recovery, explore our guide on how to sleep after ACL surgery.

How to Sleep After ACL Surgery

When recovering from ACL surgery, getting enough sleep can be challenging. This is a problem at the best of times, but all the more unfortunate when your body needs rest...
Tagged: General Surgery Orthopedic Orthopedic Surgery Sleeping Positions
A woman clutches her SI joint area in pain. If you're suffering from sacroiliac joint pain, read our comprehensive article on how to get relief, especially when sleeping.

The Best Sleeping Position for Sacroiliac Joint Pain Relief

Stop Suffering in Silence with SI Joint Pain Picture this: You've tried the stretches, swallowed the supplements, endured the therapy sessions, and maybe even contemplated some very creative curse words...
Tagged: Orthopedic Orthopedic Surgery Pain Sleeping Positions
A woman wakes up feeling refreshed after sleeping. If you're looking for how to train yourself to sleep on your back, we've got you covered with our comprehensive guide on how to make the transition to back sleeping.

How to Train Yourself to Sleep on Your Back

In a world obsessed with optimizing everything from our morning routines to our workout regimens, sleep position remains a curiously overlooked aspect of our daily lives. Yet, the way you...
Tagged: Back Pain Back Sleeping Back Surgery General Surgery Orthopedic Orthopedic Surgery
Best Sleeping Position for IT Band Pain: A Comprehensive Guide

Best Sleeping Position for IT Band Pain: A Comprehensive Guide

Oh, the irony of IT band syndrome—no, it's not what happens when you've spent too many hours coding or answering help desk tickets. Despite sounding like something that afflicts overzealous...
Tagged: Orthopedic Orthopedic Surgery Pain Sleeping Positions
A woman rubs her shoulder in pain. Our ultimate guide to pillows for shoulder pain shares the reasons behind shoulder pain and how to prevent it once and for all with the right shoulder pain pillow.

The Ultimate Guide to Pillows for Shoulder Pain: Sleep Position Matters

If you've ever woken up feeling like your shoulder has been through an involuntary CrossFit session while you were innocently dreaming, welcome to the not-so-exclusive club of shoulder pain sufferers....
Tagged: Orthopedic Orthopedic Surgery Pain Pillows Sleeping Positions
Ultimate Orthopedic Pillow Guide: From Chronic Pain to Comfortable Rest

Ultimate Orthopedic Pillow Guide: From Chronic Pain to Comfortable Rest

Let's have a heart-to-heart about that sad, deflated cloud you call a pillow. You know the one—it's been with you through thick and thin (mostly thin now), and bears the...
Tagged: Orthopedic Orthopedic Surgery