In daily life, many people take a hot towel to apply to the pain area after sprain or fall, which makes it more comfortable. However, this method is unscientific because the capillary dilation after heating will cause more bleeding. What should I do after I sprained my foot? The best cold compress is within 24 hours after twisting the foot. Because at this time, muscle injury, blood vessels in the open state, cold compress, not only can promote vasoconstriction, hemostasis and coagulation, but also can relieve pain. 24 hours after the sprain, the blood vessels have stopped bleeding. At this time, hot compress can warm meridians, disperse cold, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and promote the recovery of sprain tissue as soon as possible.
After sprain, joint movement should be prohibited first, and local massage and cold compress should be carried out at the same time. Cold compress should be carried out within a few minutes of sprain. Use an ice bag or a cold wet towel. Cold compress can promote local vasoconstriction, reduce internal bleeding, relieve local soft tissue swelling, pain and spasm. At the same time, cold compress can reduce local blood circulation and vascular permeability after reducing local temperature, which has good effect on hemostasis and detumescence. If you don't have an ice bag around you, you can apply a towel soaked in cold water on the sprained foot. The cold compress time is generally half an hour, and the second cold compress is carried out after stopping for an hour in the middle.
Hot compress can be applied 24 hours after sprain. Hot compress generally uses warm bag or hot towel to apply directly on the sprain area. In addition, hot vinegar and hot wine can be used for hot compress, which can activate blood circulation and dredge collaterals, reduce swelling and relieve pain. Hot compress can relax the blood vessels of the injured part, increase the local blood circulation, accelerate the metabolism speed of the injured part, and enhance the tissue self-healing ability. In addition, hot compress can increase the ductility of soft tissue, reduce the probability of joint stiffness and muscle spasm, relieve pain and reduce edema, but it must be noted that the hot compress time should not be too long, twice a day, each time in 20 minutes.
The treatment of different joint sprains is different
Joint sprain is more common in sports injuries of teenagers and work injuries of manual workers, and most often occurs in ankle joint, wrist and lower waist. If the joint sprain occurs in the lower waist, it is what we usually call "flash waist bifurcation". The common symptoms of joint sprain include pain, swelling, joint movement is not effective, pain is the symptoms of each joint sprain patients, and swelling, skin blue, joint can not rotate is the common manifestations of sprain.
For different parts of the joint sprain, the treatment principle is not the same, the following introduces the most common joint sprain and emergency measures:
1. In the process of doing basketball, I will sprain my fingers. When a finger sprain occurs, the patient will have electric shock like pain and will suddenly stop moving. For patients with finger sprain, they should stop moving immediately after injury, and should immediately carry out cold compress on the injured fingers with ice.
If there is no ice, cold compress with a clean wet cloth. The advantage of this is that it can constrict the blood vessels, thereby reducing the swelling of the damaged area. The specific method is: soak the finger in ice water for about 15 minutes, then pack it with cold wet cloth, and then fix the finger in the straight position with adhesive tape. It should be remembered that the movement of the fingers must be checked at this time. If the extension and bending of the fingers are limited or the last finger is drooping, avulsion fracture may occur.
2. Ankle sprain: ankle sprain is one of the most common sprains in people's whole body, especially in teenagers. After the occurrence of ankle sprain, first of all, absolute rest, with the pillow to cushion the lower leg, in order to facilitate venous blood return, promote blood stasis dissipation. At the same time, attention should be paid to protect the feet and do not rub the injured parts.
Then you can wrap the ice with a towel and apply it to the injured area for 10-20 minutes each time, once every 6 hours. If the skin injury is not serious, the hot towel can be used for external application after 48 hours, so as to accelerate the local blood circulation and absorb the exudate from the tissue space as soon as possible, so as to reduce the pain. In addition, Yunnan Baiyao or Qili powder can be mixed into paste with tea, rice wine or egg white, and applied to the wound, and then bandaged. Dressing should be changed 2-3 times a day.
It also has a good effect on promoting blood stasis dissipation. In order to prevent ankle joint sprain again, the rear part of the lateral sole can be padded 0. 5 cm. In order to protect the ligament, knee pads can be worn for 2-3 weeks.
3. Lumbar sprain: lumbar sprain is a laceration injury caused by sudden excessive traction of the waist, which often occurs when patients suddenly turn around, bend down to lift heavy objects or lift heavy objects with uneven force.
When the waist is injured, the patient will feel a twinkling pain in the waist. When this is the time, the patient should rest, the most important thing is to keep calm, do not excessive activity. At this time, if the patient rushed to the hospital to see a doctor, it would aggravate the disease. After lumbar sprain, cold compress should be carried out on the injured part, and hot towel wet compress can be used after 1-2 days of cold compress. In addition, patients with lumbar sprain * * sleep on a hard bed, tie a wide belt, and pay attention to exercise the back muscles.
If the lumbar sprain is not handled properly, it will cause repeated attacks of lumbar injury and may develop into prolapse of lumbar intervertebral disc.
In a word, no matter what kind of joint sprain has occurred, the patient should not allow the injured part to move freely during the acute period of sprain, otherwise, the fresh sprain will turn into old sprain due to insufficient repair of soft tissue, so that the pain and blood stasis are not easy to subside. In addition, if the pain is more serious, you can take blood activating painkillers.
prevention
From the medical point of view, it is very important to take the initiative to prevent sports injury and deal with it timely and correctly. Then, how to effectively prevent it? Mainly in the following aspects:
1. Training methods should be reasonable. To master the correct training methods and sports technology, increase the amount of exercise scientifically.
2. Preparations should be adequate. In practical work, we found that many sports injuries are caused by insufficient preparatory activities. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare before training.
3. Pay attention to interval relaxation. In training, in order to eliminate muscle fatigue more quickly and prevent sports injury due to local overload, it is very important to relax the interval between groups.
4. To prevent local overburden. Excessive concentration of exercise in training will cause excessive burden on the body and cause sports injury.
5. Strengthen the muscle strength training of vulnerable parts. According to statistics, in sports practice, muscle, ligament and other soft tissue sports injuries are most common. Therefore, it is of great significance to strengthen the muscle training of vulnerable parts to prevent the occurrence of injury.
