Sleep disturbance is a very common condition in the patients with a rotator cuff tear. Patients get restless and inadequate sleep. Due to the pain and lack of sleep patients are often a driven to proceed with rotator cuff repair. No study has been done previously to examine whether sleep disturbance is reduced in the patients undergoing surgical repair. The new study suggests that it does.
Rotator cuff tear is a tear of one or more tendons of the rotator cuff muscle. It is one of the most common condition affecting the shoulder. Many patients suffering from rotator cuff tear cannot get enough and undisturbed sleep. The studies have shown that inadequate and restless sleep often drives patients to an operative procedure of rotator cuff tear repair. The scientists from the USA carried out a study to check whether patients undergoing rotator cuff repair show any clinical evidence of…
