The ankle is one of the most sprained joints in our body. Students have more daily sports activities and a large amount of exercise, which is very easy to appear sports injury pain such as sprain and foot sprain.
If students sprain their feet, and do not pay enough attention to treatment and rehabilitation exercise as soon as possible, resulting in soft tissues such as the ligament around the ankle joint can not be recovered well, it is easy to develop into a habitual sprain.
In this article, I will teach students to quickly master some small skills to deal with sports injuries, which can help us to support professional treatment in regular hospitals when sports injuries occur, and rapid rehabilitation training after treatment.
When a sports injury occurs, let’s briefly classify it to see whether it’s a muscle injury or a soft tissue injury. For example, when muscles and tendons are stretched, they are divided into muscle types. If it is the sheath of tendon or muscle, synovium, etc., it is divided into soft tissue type.
In general, muscle-type injuries accumulate a large number of inflammatory cells at the site of injury, releasing anti-inflammatory substances, resulting in pain. After a muscle strain, it may initially be a local pain, but gradually the pain will spread to the whole muscle, causing muscle pain and movement disorders. At the same time, muscle strain can be accompanied by red skin, subcutaneous blood stasis and other symptoms.
In case of muscle strain, students can follow the following treatment steps for early treatment:
Stop continuing to exercise to avoid further muscle stretching injury;
Apply local cold compress to the injured area;
If there is subcutaneous blood stasis, you can find bands for pressure bandaging, so as to reduce the continuous bleeding of muscle tissue, but be careful not to tie too tight, so as not to affect the blood circulation;
Finally, the injured area can be raised, preferably above the heart area, to help prevent edema. Then as soon as possible to the regular hospital to accept the diagnosis and treatment of professional doctors.
The common cause of such soft tissue inflammation as synovitis and tenosynovitis is usually strain and local aseptic inflammation caused by tissue friction. In popular terms, it is the tissue damage caused by excessive friction, which causes a large number of inflammatory cells to gather and produce symptoms such as red, swollen, heat and pain.
Early steps to alleviate soft tissue injuries include:
Applying local ice within 6 hours of injury can help reduce local blood circulation, which can reduce the pain caused by inflammation.
In the first 24 hours after the injury, the local hot compress can help promote the local blood circulation, so as to transport the substances that cause pain through the blood circulation, and reduce the pain symptoms;
Go to a professional doctor in time for diagnosis and treatment, and take anti-inflammatory drugs under the guidance of a doctor to reduce the level of inflammatory factors, thereby reducing pain.
If the students feel that the above methods are a little complicated and difficult to remember, here I introduce a simple injury treatment trick to the students:
When we unfortunately have a sprain, we can refer to the 48-hour limit standard. We judge the time within 48 hours as the acute stage of injury. During this period, we need to apply ice water and ice towels to the affected skin by cold compress to reduce the speed of blood circulation and reduce the degree of exudation, bleeding and inflammation, so as to achieve the effect of reducing swelling, pain and injury.
After 48 hours, we can change the cold compress to the hot compress. This is because after the cold compress, the phenomenon of capillary bleeding in the affected area has basically stopped, and the swelling has gradually improved. At this time, the hot compress treatment can help promote blood circulation, accelerate the absorption of skin tissue stasis and exudate, so as to achieve the purpose of promoting blood swelling, relieving collateral and relieving pain.
Post time: Jan-03-2025