How should scapulohumeral periarthritis be treated

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Scapulohumeral periarthritis is a common chronic disease, which mostly occurs in the middle-aged and old people over 41 years old. Its inducing causes are more complex, including trauma, long-term strain and wind cold. The best way for this disease is early treatment, so I would like to share with you how to treat scapulohumeral periarthritis.

How should scapulohumeral periarthritis be treated

First of all: Patients with early pain as the main clinical manifestation, also known as the pain period, patients with pain can lead to muscle spasm, resulting in dysfunction. Therefore, early treatment should be mainly to relieve pain, such as making the shoulder get enough rest; injecting prednisolone in the most obvious part of local tenderness; warm compress, cold compress and other physical therapy.

Secondly: when the patients with scapulohumeral periarthritis are in the recovery period, the pain can be significantly alleviated, but the symptoms of limited joint activity can appear, so the muscle strength should be enhanced and shoulder joint functional exercise should be strengthened in the recovery period. Patients in this period must not be lazy, so as not to cause deterioration of the disease.

Finally: in addition, in the chronic phase, the common symptoms of scapulohumeral periarthritis is that the shoulder pain gradually alleviates or disappears, but the contracture and stiffness of shoulder joint gradually aggravates, presenting a frozen state;. The activity of shoulder joint in all directions is 50% - 20% less than that of normal people. In severe cases, the activity of shoulder humeral joint completely disappears, only the activity of scapular chest wall joint. Mild muscle atrophy may occur in patients with long course of disease, which is more common in deltoid muscle and scapular girdle muscle. Tenderness is mild or no tenderness, which lasts for a long time, usually 2-5 months.

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In addition, we should remind you that: Patients with scapulohumeral periarthritis should pay attention to, if it is in the acute stage of treatment of scapulohumeral periarthritis, patients must control the development of scapulohumeral periarthritis as the first treatment, when the condition of scapulohumeral periarthritis is under control, we can use a variety of methods to treat scapulohumeral periarthritis, so that the symptoms of scapulohumeral periarthritis gradually disappear, of course, in this process, we need scapulohumeral periarthritis Patient patience.