Shoulder Relief System

This was bought for my husband who had suffered from shoulder/rotar cuff issues for months. It arrived quickly and well packaged and is alot bigger than expected - can be problematic if you have anything smaller than a King Size bed for a couple though.

The covers are nice and soft, and more importantly easy to take off for washing. The little insert piece is an oddity, the stuffing feels like a bag of oddments of foam, I guess its only there to support the head pillow though?

Did it work?

The wedge part is great, it had really helped the shoulder pain with the placement of his arms through the side hole - it had also helped with his snoring and apnea symptoms, something I am very grateful for! It does take some getting used to, slipping down the bed was the main challenge but worse this was overcome, it really did work.

The Bad Part -

The body pillow! This is made of heavy memory foam material that is just too hot! It retains heat like a furness, and just isnt practical. We have found a workaround by purchasing a regular body pillow that does the same job.

Overall though, its worth the cost if shoulder pain is affecting your life. My scores are based on the whole thing, so the body pillow does reduce them.

Overall my experience has been good. The pillow is great for my hips and back and neck. The combination of latex and foam means it holds its shape quite well and isn't just squashing down like other body pillows. My neck actually feels aligned when i lay down to sleep now. The lower part is great for allowing my arms to be underneath my head while i sleep, which in turn has meant no more waking up with dead arms worrying about my hand and wrist health as it was starved of blood all night.

The only downside is i tend to wake up in the night having slid down the lower part. Althougth until they make mattresses with a space for my arm, this is the best solution available currently. I also tend to toss and turn a bit and trying to turn the whole pillow over again and again is a bit cumbersome. It might have been better for it to be equally sized on both sides so I only have to turn myself over and not the whole pillow. Luckily I am single so not an issue at the moment but i can see it being annoying for a partner. But for me and my issues (broken collarbone, chronic neck pain) it's been very helpful in allowing me to have a good night's sleep for once.

Finding a comfortable sleeping position with a torn rotator cuff and spinal neck disk bulge felt completely impossible until I got this system. If you are dealing with this specific, brutal combination of shoulder and neck nerve pain, this is worth every single penny.

The magic is in how the pieces work together for both injuries:

For the Rotator Cuff: The patented arm pocket allows your downside arm to drop through the wedge. This completely unloads your body weight from the shoulder joint, stopping that deep, throbbing joint pain.

For the spinal neck disk bulge: The incline naturally reduces pressure on the cervical spine, while the seamless integration between the wedge and the body pillow keeps your neck in a neutral, supported alignment. It stops my arm and fingers from going numb during the night.

Spine Alignment: The J-shaped body pillow hooks between your knees and supports your torso, preventing you from twisting your spine or accidentally rolling onto your stomach and wrenching your neck.

A couple of honest warnings: It is massive and takes up half of a Queen bed, so your partner will have to adjust. Also, switching sides during the night requires you to consciously wake up and flip the body pillow over for maximum comfort, something which I rarely do.

That said, when you are dealing with nerve compression and shoulder trauma, those are tiny trade-offs. It took my neck and back about 4 to 5 nights to fully adjust to the incline, but I am finally waking up…

Took a while to get used to it. So to begin with I was waking up a lot. Not from pain like I would normally. Just trying to get comfortable. Now once used to it. I am sleeping very well. Pain free for the 1st time in years. My only negative is the pillow is so warm. Which isn’t good in the current heatwave we are having.

I'm especially grateful to the innovative sleep 'noodle' for its: sustainable, non-toxic and extremely comforting/comfortable design which has alleviated so much of my neck and shoulder pain! I bought a second one recently for my partner. Happily recommend.