How is the wrist pain?
1, wrist sprain
Wrist injuries often have an obvious history of external injuries. Wrist joint weakness occurs after injury, and wrist joint activity is invalid. Slight injury, generally no obvious swelling, little pain, only when the wrist joint moves greatly.
Severe sprain, sometimes wrist swelling, severe pain, wrist joint immobility or increased pain during exercise. There is tenderness in the injured area or abnormal changes in muscle tissue. Wrist injury should be treated in time to prevent ischemic necrosis of scaphoid and lunate.
① Wrist joint flexed hard in the palm, and pain appeared on the dorsal side, suggesting that the dorsal carpal ligament and extensor carpi tendon were injured. On the other hand, it is the injury of carpal metacarpal ligament or wrist flexor tendon.
② When the wrist deflects to the ulnar side forcibly and the styloid process of the radius is painful, it is a radial collateral ligament injury. On the contrary, it is ulnar collateral ligament injury.
(3) There is pain in all directions of wrist movement, and the movement is obviously limited, suggesting that it is a compound injury of ligament and tendon.
2, wrist tenosynovitis
The main causes of wrist pain are tenosynovitis of the wrist, numbness, edema, tingling and decreased sensitivity of the wrist or fingers, or pain when pressing, inflexibility of joints, difficulty in holding things with bent fingers, and increased discomfort when fingers move. This is obvious tenosynovitis of the wrist.
3. Rheumatoid arthritis
Wrist rheumatism pain and swelling is the main manifestation, and with the further development and deterioration of the disease, it will bring serious symptoms such as limited activity and muscle atrophy, and even involve multiple systems and organs, which can have various clinical manifestations.
Its early symptoms are atypical. There are symptoms such as low fever, fatigue, emaciation and joint pain. Rheumatism is very harmful to patients, so it needs detailed examination, early diagnosis and early treatment to control the disease and avoid further harm.
What about wrist pain?
1, if you have a tingling pain in your hand.
You should do some gentle hand movements, such as turning your wrist. Hold your hands continuously, straighten and bend your fingers, and practice repeatedly.
2. Put your hands above your head.
Rotating your arms and wrists at the same time helps to adjust the position of your shoulders, neck and upper back.
Step 3 do head and neck exercises
For example, rotate your head and look left and right.
Vitamin c can repair tissues.
Vitamin B6 and zinc pyridoxine can reduce tissue inflammation, accelerate blood circulation and slightly induce diuresis.
5. Keep your elbows above your shoulders.
Elbows on the table or hands on the chair are all good ways to rest your hands.
6. Aspirin helps to diminish inflammation and relieve pain.
Vitamin B6 is helpful to relieve the symptoms of wrist pain syndrome, but it must be guided by a doctor.
7. Cold compress and hot compress
① cold compress
Use an ice pack in a painful place and apply mineral oil to the skin where the ice pack is to be placed. Put a wet towel on the oil and an ice pack on the towel. In order to achieve the isolation effect, you have to put a towel on the ice pack.
Cold compress every time 10-20 minutes, and check the skin every 5- 10 minutes. Once you find that your skin turns white or purple, you should take off the ice pack immediately to avoid frostbite on your wrist.
② Hot compress
Hot compress can relax your muscles and tendons, improve blood circulation and promote wound healing. However, it should also be noted that when the wrist is just injured, don't apply hot compress immediately, and wait until 72 hours after the injury to start using hot compress.
Step 8 Use a wrist splint
Keeping your wrist straight can relieve wrist pain. It is best to buy a wristband with adhesive tape and metal plug, which can provide support without making your hands stiff. Remember to put out your finger. Try to keep your hands and wrists straight and don't bend up and down.
9. Don't wrap your wrist too tightly with a bandage.
So as not to interfere with blood circulation.
10, let your hand rest
Protect the wrist from further injury. When using tools, don't concentrate pressure on the root of your wrist. Try to use elbows and shoulders. Avoid sagging arms when sleeping.
Treatment of wrist pain
Rest your hand: this is usually the first step to cure further injuries to your wrist.
Use splint: Try to keep your hands and wrists straight, and don't bend up and down. If the situation is serious, the doctor will let you wear a splint to fix the injured wrist so as not to aggravate the damage to it.
Taking vitamins: Vitamin C can repair tissues, and vitamin B6 and zinc pyridoxine can reduce tissue inflammation, accelerate blood circulation and slightly induce diuresis.
In view of these characteristics, you might as well eat more fruits and vegetables, which are rich in the above vitamins. At the same time, we should also pay attention to properly reduce the intake of protein, because it will inhibit the absorption of vitamin b6.
Note: In view of the serious situation of poor long-term treatment effect, it is recommended to resume Chinese medicine nursing!
Conclusion: If there is any abnormality in the wrist, we must be vigilant and find out what is going on. It is best to treat the abnormality in time. This is very important. It is important to prevent tenosynovitis or other things. The sooner you treat it, the sooner you can get better. I hope I can help you and cherish your health.