Arthroscopic rotator cuff repair may improve sleep for patients with sleep disturbance
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Key takeaways:
- Arthroscopic rotator cuff repair may improve sleep comfortability.
- At latest follow-up, 81.8% of patients overall were able to sleep comfortably and 65.7% of all patients were able to sleep on the affected side.
Patients with sleep disturbance who underwent arthroscopic rotator cuff repair had significant improvements in sleep comfortability as early as 3 months postoperatively, according to published results.
Daniel F. Schodlbauer, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at the Levy Shoulder to Hand Center at the Paley Orthopedic and Spine Institute, and colleagues performed a retrospective review of data from 677 patients (median age of 63 years) who underwent arthroscopic rotator cuff repair at a single institution from 2012 to 2021. Overall, 648 patients (95.7%) reported preoperative sleep disturbance and 474 patients were available for minimum of 1-year follow-up.
At a median follow-up of 4.1 years, 81.8% of patients overall were able to sleep comfortably and 65.7% of all patients were able to sleep on the affected side.
Schodlbauer and colleagues found patients had rapid improvements in sleep comfortability
up to 6 months postoperatively, before improvements plateaued. However, the researchers noted patients’ ability to sleep on the affected side did not plateau after 6 months, which indicated lasting improvements, according to study results.
“Based on these results, patients can expect more rapid recovery of the ability to sleep comfortably during the first 3 months and more rapid recovery of the ability to sleep on the affected side in the following 3 months,” Schodlbauer and colleagues wrote in the study.
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