What Pillow Do I Need After a Shoulder Surgery?

You don’t need any special pillows. You can just use your pillows.

I tell people to sleep just two or three up the back. So you’re up, like, a 20—or 30-degree incline. Then, one or two underneath your operative arm to help prop up your elbow and take off your sling. That’s very comfortable. That’s how we recommend a lot of our patients sleep, and they try this.

Many of them love it. You can try a pillow on Amazon called the Shoulder Pillow. Some of our patients have loved it. But I think you can do the same thing on your own. So try that. And then also, if you want to look at this Amazon pillow, it’s not very expensive. Just type in Sleep pillow on Amazon.

We have links to it on our website. And one of our sleep videos tells you how to order it. But that’s if you’re gonna get a specific shoulder pillow. There’s one on Amazon that’s pretty cheap, but I think you can do it easily, too.