Muscle atrophy after meniscus surgery?

Meniscus injury is a very common disease in daily life. Generally, if the meniscus injury is not serious, most of the time it is treated conservatively. However, for more serious meniscus injuries, they are treated through surgery. Postoperative care and rehabilitation after surgery are very important. However, some people experience muscle atrophy after meniscus surgery. This is most likely due to qi stagnation and blood stasis caused by the operation. Acupuncture or cupping can be used to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.

Nowadays, many diseases require surgery to treat, which has resulted in an increasing number of surgeries performed in hospitals. More and more patients have to undergo surgery due to some physical conditions. In fact, any surgery involves risks. For example, patients who have just undergone meniscus surgery may experience muscle atrophy after the surgery. Faced with this situation, patients need to be careful.

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Before understanding why patients experience muscle atrophy after surgery, we need to understand meniscus surgery, which refers to a surgery performed on the meniscus located on the medial and lateral articular surfaces of the tibial plateau. The patient needs to undergo meniscus surgery because the patient's meniscus is damaged, otherwise surgery is not necessary. The meniscus is very important to each of us because it stabilizes our knee joint, transmits knee joint load, and promotes nutrition within the joint. It is because of the existence of the meniscus that our knee joints will not be injured when we exercise.

Patients experience muscle atrophy after meniscus surgery, mainly because of the immobilization and fixation of the patient's local muscles, resulting in disuse atrophy, coupled with the lack of any exercise for a long time. Therefore, to solve the problem of muscle atrophy after surgery, the patient's knee joint must be given relevant treatment and care. In terms of treatment, patients can be given hormone injections. However, it is still recommended to provide patients with relevant care, that is, let the patient tie a sandbag on the calf of the atrophied leg first, and then sit on a chair and do leg-lifting exercises. Remember that the patient must lift his leg repeatedly. Or let the patient find something to support himself, and use the atrophied leg to do squats on one leg. If the patient persists for a long time, muscle atrophy can be solved.

If the patient really develops muscle atrophy after meniscus surgery, the patient should not worry first, because there are treatments and care methods that can help patients with this problem. When it comes to nursing methods, patients must have perseverance and use their own perseverance to persevere.