What are some tips for relieving rheumatic shoulder pain?

As the pressure of life in real society continues to increase, many people who work with their heads down for a long time will easily develop some shoulder rheumatic diseases. Shoulder rheumatism will not only easily affect the normal activities of the upper limbs, but will also easily cause redness, swelling and pain in the shoulder joints, which will greatly affect the health of the joints. There are many ways to relieve shoulder rheumatic pain, which can be relieved by massage or hot compress.

How to relieve rheumatic shoulder pain

1. During an attack of shoulder rheumatism, you should try to lift your shoulders as little as possible and avoid excessive shoulder movements to relieve pain symptoms.

2. Appropriate massage can be performed on the rheumatic pain area to promote blood circulation and effectively relieve muscle spasms, thereby reducing pain.

3. If the pain is severe and affects your sleep or rest at night, you can take some painkillers appropriately.

4. Patients with stiff shoulder joints can exercise the shoulder joint function more. The specific methods are as follows:

(1) “Circle-drawing” exercise: bend over with your upper and lower limbs vertical. Let the painful limb hang naturally and repeat the circle-drawing movement, first rotating clockwise and then counterclockwise.

(2) “Wall Climbing” Exercise: Stand upright and move sideways toward the wall as you feel pain, moving your fingers upwards as you crawl until you can’t move any further.

5. Pay attention to seasonal changes and keep your shoulder joints warm at all times.

6. Cut the ginger into pieces, the finer the better, and wrap it with a paper towel or gauze. Place it on the rheumatic area of ​​the shoulder and secure it with plastic wrap. After applying it for a period of time, the shoulder will slowly become hot, and you can remove it when the shoulder can no longer bear the heat.

If you have shoulder rheumatism, you must pay attention to keeping the shoulder joints warm. You must dry your hair and body after taking a bath. Cold and dampness in the body will aggravate the rheumatism. Therefore, you must ensure that your home is ventilated, your bedroom is dry, and develop the habit of washing and drying your quilts frequently.

Rheumatism treatment

Arthralgia is one of the common diseases in Chinese medicine. It is a group of systemic disease syndromes characterized by joint pain. Its clinical manifestations are equivalent to rheumatic and rheumatoid arthritis in modern medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the cause and pathogenesis of the disease is mainly wind, cold and dampness invading the human body, staying in the joints, blocking the meridians, causing qi and blood stasis, and meridian blockage, which causes pain.

Rheumatoid arthritis has an acute onset, invades large joints, and recurs repeatedly. It is often associated with upper respiratory tract streptococcal infection, with the onset mostly occurring in adolescents, and serum anti-streptolysin "o", anti-streptococcal kinase and anti-hyaluronidase are all positive. It is characterized by multiple, migratory, redness, swelling, heat and pain in large joints. After the active period, the affected joints do not retain pathological damage. If treated improperly, it can affect the heart and cause rheumatic heart disease.

Rheumatoid arthritis has a slow onset and first invades small joints or the spine, which can cause joint deformities, bone damage, and positive rheumatoid factor. The disease is lingering, the course of the disease is prolonged, and the symptoms recur repeatedly. It may be accompanied by systemic chronic wasting symptoms such as weight loss and anemia. In the later stages, due to deformed and stiff joints and physical exhaustion, the patient becomes unable to take care of himself. Zhang Zhongjing's teaching video on Jingui Yaolue points out:

In traditional Chinese medicine, the cause of rheumatism is deficiency of the liver and kidneys, and the disease roams between the tendons and bones, similar to gout and rheumatism in Western medicine. Clinically, it is divided into three types according to symptoms:

(1) Rheumatism. Symptoms include numbness and pain: rheumatism and wind are involved, causing pain in the joints, pain that makes it difficult to bend or stretch the joints, and aggravation of pain when touched. There is sweating, shortness of breath, difficulty urinating, aversion to wind and unwillingness to take off clothes, or slight swelling of the body. Gancao Fuzi Decoction is the main treatment.

(2) Blood stasis. Symptoms are numbness but no pain. Blood stasis. Both yin and yang are weak. Cunkou and Guanshang are weak. Chizhong and Xiao are tight. External symptoms are numbness of the body, such as rheumatism. Huangqi Guizhi Wuwu Decoction is the main treatment.