Normal common sense and experience shows us that most of the known complaints ease up when we relax or even better, when we go to sleep..

One would also expect this of shoulder pains. Yet here, it is completely different. Innumerable sufferers are thus close to desperation.  

One lies down and depending on the stage of the illness, woken up after a more or less short amount of time by severe pains. There's no way of thinking about falling asleep again, unless one grasps for nostrum, which, however, stop working after a certain amount of time.

If no one has been able to give you a serious and plausible explanation for this merciless night pain up to now, then we will. More than that, we will also give you "medicine-free" tips that help you "make it through the night".

The explanation is actually not that complicated. The night pains arise from the missing weight of the arm. Yes, it sounds strange, but during the day, when the arm that weighs a couple of kilos hangs down, it pulls the arm down quite a bit, expands the deltoid muscle somewhat and pulls the ball away from the socket The gap in the socket becomes wider. This makes such a difference that there is much less pressure during the day, so that the level of pain can be at least minimized.

Yet, on lying down, this "pulling compensation" is missing completely, because nothing is pulling the arm and thus the ball away from the acromion. In this way, the strong (deltoid) muscle can move back into its original position on the upper side of the shoulder and shrink. By doing this, it pulls the ball back towards the socket in a merciless way until it bumps causing a lot of pressure on the sensitive connective tissue, causing pain. There was no help up to now. We have thought about this and put together a few "first aid tips". The tips have helped a lot of people. Maybe they will help you!

WHY do the shoulder pains usually last the whole of the first half of the day and only slowly disintegrate? When you get up, you profit from the weight of your arm, which once again starts to pull the arm and thus the ball down and away from the socket. But only until the (deltoid) muscle presses against the acromion, gives way. This takes a while and can last hours. At some point during the day, the painful connective tissue is then relieved enough for the pain to decrease. Our "first aid tips" can also help you to speed this process up!