Treatment of synovitis

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A little below the left knee, the bulge, when the leg is straight, it hurts when you press it down. It doesn't hurt when you walk. It hurts when you sit up for a long time, and it hurts when you go down the stairs. Have done physical therapy, I also occasionally smoked with wormwood, when uncomfortable paste point plaster. Later it turned out to be synovitis. After long-term treatment, it has been much better under the careful care of doctors and nurses, and now it is basically possible to go by itself. Now let's talk about the method of synovitis.

Treatment of synovitis

First, we should avoid the sports that cause trauma or strain, and reduce the knee load and flexion and extension activities. Exercise quadriceps femoris is an important and effective treatment. Straight leg raising can promote blood circulation, which is conducive to the absorption of joint effusion. Mild synovitis generally does not need to rest in bed, but can walk for a short distance. If there is a large amount of effusion, you should rest properly, raise the affected limb, and do knee joint function exercise in bed.

Second, drug treatment: general western medicine to take fluid, local injection, pressure bandage, antibiotics to control the disease. If the inflammation is not completely eliminated, the effusion will be more and more, the condition will gradually turn into chronic, synovial hypertrophy, fibrous calcification, joint adhesion, and limited function.

Third, oral medicine is difficult to cure synovitis, generally for synovitis drugs mainly for anti-inflammatory, pain relief as a supplement, play to alleviate the development of complications of synovitis. The recommended treatment is external application of traditional Chinese medicine, which can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. In addition, traditional Chinese medicine has long-lasting power and strong penetration, which is unique in the treatment of synovitis.

matters needing attention

After synovitis, long-term strenuous exercise should be avoided. Patients with synovitis should avoid long-term strenuous exercise. Long term, excessive and strenuous exercise or activity is one of the basic reasons for synovial degeneration. Especially for heavy joints (such as knee joint and hip joint), excessive exercise increases the stress on the articular surface, Long term strenuous exercise can also make the bone and surrounding soft tissue excessively stressed and stretched, resulting in local soft tissue damage and uneven stress on the bone, leading to bone hyperplasia