Opioid addiction and sleep problems leading to problems of chronic hip pain
Marc Darrow, MD, JD. Many people with chronic joint pain do not sleep well. Whether it is their sleep position that causes their knees, hips, shoulders and back to hurt or the advanced degenerative condition of their joints that are always inflamed and painful, the simple fact for many is they have a hard time sleeping. Doctors are beginning to understand that lack of sleep causes chronic pain and chronic pain causes lack of sleep, so a cycle has developed. For many, who have difficulty braking the sleep-pain cycle, their doctors may offer medications for either the pain or the