Sihaiwang: in daily life, if you don't pay attention to your work, you will often have a twisted waist. So how can the waist twist be recovered as soon as possible? How long can the waist sprain be recovered? Let's have a look.
How can I recover as soon as I twist my waist
Cold compress
If it's just after sprain, apply cold compress. If the sprain is within a few minutes or no more than 10 minutes, apply cold compress with ice bag or cold wet towel immediately, so as to avoid local vasodilation, bleeding and aggravating edema. It has the effect of detumescence and pain relief. After half an hour, the cold compress is over and the next treatment is started.
Activating blood circulation to dissipate blood stasis
After 24 hours of sprain, local area can be treated with hot compress, massage, fire trough pulling, or hot cloth wrapped with salt, or the injured muscles on the back of the waist can be hit evenly with fingertips, palm edges or half clenched hands. This will help promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.
Take more rest
After the waist sprain, if you want to get better quickly, you'd better put down all things temporarily and lie on the bed to rest. The bed is a little thinner and the recovery of the waist sprain is better. Rest can relieve the symptoms of sprain in the waist. After the waist sprain, the movement should be stopped immediately, so that the injured muscles can rest, so as to avoid further injury, leading to chronic lumbar muscle strain and lumbar disc herniation. Rest method is mainly bed rest, to sleep flat bed, do not have a very thick mattress.
Massage points
When you rest for half an hour, you should go to massage. At home, you can do a simple massage. There are palms to massage the sprained waist, and you need to beat gently. For the pressure pain point, you need to press the elbow point for a few minutes. The pressure pain point is to press the waist with your fingers. The most painful place is the pressure pain point, which is called Ashi point in medicine.
Take the sitting position of the patient, use the thumb or middle finger to press the Taichong Point on one side (located in the depression in front of the joint of 1 and 2 metatarsals on the back of the foot) for about 3-5 minutes, and then press the other side. Point on time or point press, the patient back and forth, left and right rotation waist, until the pain relief or no pain.
Drug erasure
After the massage, it can be used to wipe the wounds with drugs. Common safflower oil, detumescence pain relieving tincture, Yunnan Baiyao spray, etc.
Lumbar traction
The patient lies on the bed on the back, with both upper limbs extended and relaxed. If the patient has low back pain on the extension side, the hip and knee joints on the pain side will buckle, and then the lower limbs will be extended by the habitual force, so as to pull the waist, sometimes the waist will make a sound; if the patient has low back pain on both sides, it can be carried out alternately, 5-10 minutes each time, 3-5 times a day.
Kneeling and waist rolling
Lie on your back, bend your knees and hips, clasp your hands under the knee joint, and try to move your head to your knees to make the back of your spine protrude. Use your own strength to roll the chair. At the beginning, because the lumbar muscle plate is hard, after rolling for 1-2 minutes, the lumbar muscle spasm will be relieved and the pain will be relieved. You can roll for 3-5 minutes with a large margin. This method is especially suitable for the elderly and the weak.
Oral party
Litchi kernel 60g, paoshanjia 15g, yellow wine a little. Grind the first two flavors into a fine powder. Take 9g twice a day, warm rice wine.
How long does it take for a sprain to recover
Waist sprain is commonly known as' flash waist '.
Ordinary people often bend down to lift heavy objects when suddenly flash to the waist, hope you want to avoid this kind of action.
The key points of first aid are to keep comfortable posture, rest and cold compress.
The sprain of the waist is caused by the sudden pulling of the waist muscles when bending down to take heavy objects.
First of all, keep a comfortable posture and rest quietly when you sprain your waist.
At this time, you can bow down on the bed, but you can't lie on the too soft mattress.
Avoid lying on your back with your feet straight.
This not only increases the pain, but also may paralyze the feet. Cold compress can relieve pain. So you might as well cold compress the waist with a wet towel.
Slight flash waist, as long as rest 1-2 days can automatically heal.
However, if the pain continues or becomes more and more painful, you need to see a doctor as soon as possible (plastic surgery).
In addition, not only muscle pain, disc herniation may also cause low back pain, so low back pain should be checked in the hospital.
When going to the hospital, try not to let the injured walk.
It's better to keep the injured in the most comfortable position and take him to the hospital by car.
What kind of plaster should I put on my twisted waist
Many people inadvertently sprain waist, the first choice is to paste plaster, Chinese medicine experts pointed out that this is an unscientific method, sprain the most important first-aid measures are rest and cold compress.
Once the waist sprains, first of all, should immediately stop activities, take a comfortable position, lying on the side or supine, while preventing further damage to the waist. However, some painkillers and antispasmodics can be used.
Secondly, within 24 hours after injury, cold compress with local ice bag or wet towel. Observe the skin color of the sprained part. If the skin turns blue and purple or feels numb, stop cold compress temporarily.
It is suggested that after 24 hours of injury, the hot compress and blood activating drugs will cause inflammation reaction and reach the peak within 24 hours; if the Shangshi Zhitong plaster is pasted at this time, its blood activating effect will accelerate the local blood circulation and increase the fluid exuded from the blood vessels, which will aggravate the local swelling and pain. Use it when local bleeding and exudation stop. After the symptom alleviates, should do some back muscle exercises, protect the waist, use the waist strength correctly, prevent the recurrence.