How to treat shoulder strain?

Shoulder sprain is a very common phenomenon. Most of the time, it is caused by sports. It is difficult to avoid bumps and bruises in daily life. For the treatment of shoulder sprain, if it is a mild strain, you can use blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs, or use a hot towel for hot compress. Generally, it can be recovered in half a month. If it is a serious strain, it needs to be treated by surgery. Generally, it may take two or three months of recovery period after surgery.

How to effectively prevent shoulder strain? There are mainly the following aspects:

1. The training method should be reasonable. You need to master the correct training methods and sports techniques to increase the amount of exercise scientifically.

2. Prepare thoroughly. In actual work, we found that many sports injuries were caused by insufficient warm-up exercises. Therefore, it is necessary to do warm-up exercises before training.

3. Pay attention to interval relaxation. During training, it is very important to relax between sets after each set of exercise in order to eliminate muscle fatigue more quickly and prevent sports injuries caused by local overload.

4. Prevent local excessive burden. Excessive concentration of exercise during training will cause excessive burden on local parts of the body and cause sports injuries.

5. Strengthen muscle strength exercises in vulnerable areas. According to statistics, in sports practice, sports injuries to soft tissues such as muscles and ligaments are the most common. Therefore, strengthening muscle exercises in vulnerable areas is of great significance in preventing injuries.

How to recover quickly from a shoulder ligament sprain

Early treatment methods

1. Ice compress and pressure bandage: In the early stage after shoulder ligament sprain, it should be treated as closed soft tissue injury, using ice compress, pressure bandage, etc. to minimize local congestion and edema.

Rest and immobilization In the early stages of shoulder ligament sprain, the affected limb should be placed in a naturally relaxed position to rest, and if necessary, it should be immobilized with a bandage. Do not continue to exert force to avoid aggravating the strain.

For those with partially broken muscle fibers, Yunnan Baiyao spray can be used externally to reduce exudative edema, relieve pain, reduce swelling and inflammation.

Local heat

2 24 to 48 hours after the shoulder ligament is sprained, the internal bleeding at the injured area has stopped. At this time, you can use a warm towel or massage to reduce swelling and promote blood absorption. When applying warm compress, the temperature should not be too high, the time should not be too long, and the massage should not be too heavy, so as not to aggravate exudation, edema or rebleeding.

Local massage

3 Do not massage immediately after spraining the shoulder ligament, otherwise it may aggravate the edema and pain in the sprained area. Generally, after 48-72 hours, when the micro-capillaries in the strained area have stopped bleeding, you can use the painful points and nearby acupoints for finger acupressure massage to dredge the meridians and relieve pain, thus promoting early recovery of the strained area.

Moderate activity

4. 1-2 days after the shoulder ligament is sprained, early activities should be carried out without obvious pain in the shoulder. The shoulders and arms can be moved appropriately to stretch the muscles in the hands appropriately. This is to prevent scar adhesion or spasm of the injured muscles, which may lead to insufficient passive muscle stretching in the future.