How to prevent chronic cold legs? Combining prevention with treatment

Old cold legs are more common among the elderly, so after middle age, you must take measures to prevent this disease, pay attention to a regular life, avoid overwork, ensure adequate sleep, and eat nutritiously. If old cold legs occur, you must actively treat it, which can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine.

1. Pay attention to prevention.

The first is to improve the health of the entire body. After middle age, people should pay special attention to their lifestyle, prevent trauma and excessive fatigue, ensure sleep and nutrition, eat in moderation, and prevent excessive obesity to reduce the burden on joints. Second, pay attention to keeping the knee joints warm. Pay attention to keeping the knee joints warm and protecting them from cold in daily life to prevent the joints from being invaded by cold and dampness. You can use knee pads. The third is to engage in reasonable physical exercise. Proper exercise can promote the absorption of nutrients by articular cartilage and maintain joint mobility.

At the same time, you should combine work and rest to avoid damaging your joints due to excessive activity. Middle-aged and elderly people can choose to practice Tai Chi, jogging, walking, gymnastics and other forms of exercise, and they should persist in doing so.

The amount of activity should be enough to make you feel comfortable and sweat slightly. It does not have to be a lot, but it should be done continuously every day. Fourth, do not increase joint wear. Some elderly people often exercise by half-squatting and shaking their knees back and forth and left and right. Because the pressure on the patellar surface is greatest when half squatting, shaking will aggravate the wear and tear, which can cause or aggravate osteoarthritis of the knee joint. Therefore, this type of exercise is not advisable for middle-aged and elderly people. In addition, middle-aged and elderly people should not engage in mountain climbing, because going up and down the mountain will increase the burden on the knee joints and easily damage the joint cartilage.

2. Seek treatment as soon as possible.

The treatment of osteoarthritis can follow the principle of traditional Chinese medicine "treating the symptoms in an emergency and treating the root cause in a chronic manner". For those with acute pain, Western medicine methods such as local blockade and nerve block can be adopted, or oral non-steroidal drugs such as indomethacin and ibuprofen can be taken to quickly relieve pain. If there is joint effusion, the fluid can be drained and medications such as prednisone can be injected at the same time. However, although this drug can control symptoms quickly, it has adverse effects on articular cartilage and should not be used continuously or in large quantities. It is particularly worth mentioning here that during the acute attack period, patients can be treated with internal and external treatment methods such as oral Chinese medicine, acupuncture, massage, and external application. Chinese medicine for internal use should be those that can relax muscles and tendons, dispel cold and dampness, such as Tianma Eucommia Pills, Zhuanggu Joint Pills, Shujin Huoxue Tablets, etc. For external use of Chinese medicine, you can choose musk wind-chasing ointment, dog skin ointment, injury and dampness pain-relieving ointment, or apply bone-setting water, safflower oil and other medicines. However, middle-aged and elderly people must pay attention to choosing Chinese patent medicines with national approval numbers and not easily believe in so-called folk remedies or proven recipes, because many of the so-called folk remedies and proven recipes are mixed with hormones, and long-term use will cause great harm to the human body.

When patients are in the remission period of osteoarthritis, the treatment should be based on the root cause of the pain. For example, injecting sodium hyaluronate injection into the joint cavity has a good effect on lubricating and nourishing the joints. For example, for patients with local soft tissue adhesion and contracture, a small needle knife release technique can be used, combined with manipulation to remove adhesions, improve local blood supply, and increase nutrition to the knee joint. While carrying out the above-mentioned treatment methods, physical therapy can be combined with them, such as far-infrared irradiation, magnetic therapy, Chinese medicine moxibustion therapy, and hot spring hydrotherapy, which can speed up blood circulation, inhibit inflammation, and help the patient's recovery. In addition, under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner, taking Chinese patent medicines that nourish the liver and kidneys, warm and replenish kidney yang, and invigorate qi and nourish blood can also help support positive energy and improve the body's disease resistance.