dislocated shoulder

hey, i dislocated my shoulder a few days ago, it's not too painful but i just can't get to sleep. I have to keep my sling on and sleep on my back for at least 3 weeks. And I'm just finding it really hard to sleep on my back. Anyone had a similar injury, any tips?

Reply 1

somemightsay

Yeah I did mine a couple of months ago. Avoid moving it whenever you can, if you take the sling off make sure you keep your arm by your side, apparently it's very easy to do a repeat dislocation in the first few weeks if you aren't careful. The only exercise I got to told do after dislocation was to rotate your shoulder blade slowly in a circular motion with your arm by your side. In a few weeks, once the sling is off, you start strengthening your arm and then after a few weeks of that everything will be fine.

Oh and there's not much you can do about the sleeping unfortunately...

Reply 2

qwerty27

is it true that weight lifting after it has healed will reduce the risk of doing it again?

Reply 3

somemightsay

qwerty27

is it true that weight lifting after it has healed will reduce the risk of doing it again?

Not sure if it would, it takes a fairly major impact to do it in the first place, so you'd have to have incredibly strong muscles to prevent that force from dislocating your shoulder.

Reply 4

Renal

qwerty27

is it true that weight lifting after it has healed will reduce the risk of doing it again?

Potentially yes.

Reply 5

ftothejay

when you are out of the sling, sleep like huggin a cushion with the arm that has the shoulder u dislocated, if u get me. but that's assumin it was anterior dislocation (your arm went too far behind your back)