What should not be done after muscle strain

The 2018-03-12 health

Li yunxia, associate professor of sports medicine of huashan hospital affiliated to fudan university

Muscles, like rubber bands, are more flexible in a warm environment, and in a cold environment they are hard, brittle and easy to break. Local pain and tenderness can occur after muscle strain. Swelling, muscle tension, stiff, spasm; Dysfunction. Increased pain when injured muscles contract or passively elongate; Muscle contraction resistance test positive, that is, pain intensifies or there is a fracture in the depression. Some of the injured patients have a tearing sensation, swelling of the skin and blood stasis in the subcutaneous blood, and touching the local depression or abnormal uplift at the end may cause the muscle to break.

You should know how to do it step by step. Before you exercise, you should know the relevant sports knowledge and precautions. Be sure to get ready for activities, such as running 5 minutes to 10 minutes, and doing some simple stretching exercises. In addition, the temperature is too low, the humidity is too high, the field is too hard and so on is the important factor that causes the muscle strain. Therefore, during the winter and spring, it is recommended to exercise in the warm room.

Don't apply heat easily.

The acute movement injury should be cold compress, stop strenuous exercise. The most convenient way is to take a plastic bag with cold water or ice for 5 minutes to 10 minutes. After a long time, if there is a tingling sensation, stop the cold compress in time. You can take a cold compress for a while and then put it on a cold compress half an hour later when the area is swollen and painful. So repeated, depending on the severity of the injury, can be done several times a day.

Many people have false cognitions about the treatment after the injury, thinking that the soft tissue should be applied immediately after the injury. But hot packs can aggravate internal bleeding and swelling. Even if it is a different statement, such as 24, 48, or 72 hours of hot compress, it should be handled carefully. We often meet a lot of patients originally the symptom has been relieved, but in the home self-heating application, the bleeding, the edema actually aggravate the situation, hope everybody treats the hot compress must be careful.

In addition to the cold compress, you can also use elastic bandage to bind the wound, reducing internal bleeding and swelling. It is not recommended to apply the ointment in the acute phase. With plaster later cause skin allergy, the inflammatory edema, aggravating the situation much more special, now a lot of plasters is promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, also can aggravate bleeding swelling, so the skin of easy allergy patients should avoid to use plaster.

You can't move on

Most people choose to continue to exercise when they are not seriously injured, which only aggravates the injury and even worsens the condition. If the swelling is serious after the injury, it's better to stop and rest. Don't try to be brave. The doctor is more like a repairman, the parts of the body, the injury light nature easy to repair, the injury to repair the difficulty is big. The serious repair is not good to change, which match the original?

When will the movement be resumed? It is best to resume exercise with the doctor's advice. Some people are just slightly injured and have no bleeding symptoms and can continue to exercise in 3 days to 5 days. Patients with extensive strain and bleeding will have longer breaks. In addition, full restrictions are not encouraged. For severely injured patients, the movement of the injured part is not involved. Encounter swelling, bruising to wait for more serious symptom, should seek medical treatment as soon as possible, do not handle by oneself.

After the age of 25, people's health begins to decline, as do the muscles of the joints and the ligaments. Most athletes choose to retire from the age of 30, also because the physical quality starts to decline, the sports components to the intensity of the sports, easy to have injuries. Therefore, the movement should conform to the natural law, and make sure that it is suitable for its own motion and intensity, so as to prevent sports injury effectively.