sprain

Introduction

Introduction The joints are excessively twisted and twisted, and the joint capsules, ligaments, and tendons attached to the joints are sprains. Sprains are most common in the ankle, wrist and lower back. One of the closed soft tissue injuries. Under the action of external force, the joints have an extraordinary range of activities, resulting in damage to the lateral and lateral collateral ligaments of the joint. Symptoms such as pain, swelling, subcutaneous blood stasis, and joint dysfunction are associated with the degree of injury. In the light, the ligament part of the fiber breaks, and in the severe case, the ligament fiber is completely broken, and the joint is dislocated or sub-dislocated, and the intra-articular joint and cartilage damage are combined. More common in sports.

Cause

Cause

Most of them are caused by improper exercise or weight-bearing posture, or accidentally falling servants, pulling and excessive torsion, etc., causing damage to the flesh and veins of a certain part, resulting in meridian meridians, obstructed by gas operation, and stagnant blood stasis Made.

A sprain is a pain caused by the breakage or damage of certain muscle fibers, ligaments. Sprains can be caused by trauma, or from improper use or excessive fatigue of the muscles.

Examine

an examination

Related inspection

CT examination of joint examination

Main symptoms: pain in the sprain area, joint activity is unfavorable or not, followed by swelling, red or cyanosis of the injured skin.

See also skin color red, mostly for flesh injury, cyan is mostly tendon injury, purple is mostly blood stasis; new injury pain swelling, activity is unfavorable, for blood and blood block; if the injury is repeated every time the weather changes The author, for the invasion of cold and dampness, blood stasis. In addition, it is better to identify the sprain according to the meridian of the sprained part. Such as acute lumbar sprain, the spine of the spine is injured in the Du Meridian, one or both sides of the waist sprain is injured in the foot of the Sun.

Diagnosis

Differential diagnosis

Sports injuries: various injuries that occur during exercise. The damage site is related to sports and special technical features. For example, the injured parts of gymnasts are mostly wrists, shoulders and waists, which are related to the support, shoulder shift, jumping and tossing in gymnastics. Tennis elbows occur mostly in tennis players and javelin throwers.

Joint capsule injury: Joint capsule injury is a local swelling, pain, ecchymosis, limited limb activity and other symptoms caused by external force, pressure, collision or inversion, weight bearing, and twisting. Pelvic injury: Pelvic injury can be caused by a variety of factors, and the mechanism of occurrence is also diverse. The common phenomenon is fracture, accompanied by severe pain. The scope of diagnosis mainly includes damage mechanism, fracture type, stability degree, image evaluation, combined damage and so on.

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