What should I do if my shoulder muscles atrophy?

The muscles on the shoulders are particularly important for our upper limbs. We need to use the muscles on our shoulders when we pick up and put down objects. However, due to some special reasons, the shoulder muscles will atrophy, such as degeneration and atrophy caused by long-term lack of exercise or too little exercise, or atrophy due to lack of nutrition, etc. So what should we do if the shoulder muscles atrophy?

Treatment and care of shoulder girdle muscle atrophy:

There are two main causes of muscle atrophy. One is lack of exercise or little exercise, which causes the muscles to contract little and then degenerate. The other is malnutrition, which causes the muscle tissue protein to be broken down and causes atrophy.

1. Western medicine treatment: At present, there is no ideal effect in the treatment with Western medicine at home and abroad.

2. Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment: Traditional Chinese Medicine takes dialectical treatment as its principle and believes that the damaged internal organs should be identified, with the main focus on strengthening the body while taking into account the elimination of evil, and assisting with dispersing wind, cold, dampness, clearing heat, regulating qi, removing blood stasis and unblocking the meridians. The key to strengthening the body is to invigorate the spleen and kidneys. It is important to make accurate differentiation of syndromes, take a long course of treatment, and work slowly, using time to achieve therapeutic effects. The treatment method for early-stage muscular atrophy should focus on strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi, the middle-stage should focus on tonifying the spleen and replenishing kidneys, and the late-stage should nourish the liver and kidneys and nourish yin and replenish qi.

3. General treatment: Actively control blood sugar (including medication and diet), and physical therapy may be feasible, such as increasing muscle strength training, walking training, warm baths, massage, etc. Use B vitamins, and use B1, B6, and B12 in combination. The use of various analgesics is helpful in relieving pain.

4. Psychotherapy: Maintaining a happy mood, eliminating negative mental damage such as pessimism, fear, depression, and impatience, and building confidence in victory, strong will and optimistic emotions are crucial to improving efficacy and promoting recovery.

The treatment of this disease is based on the spleen and kidney. The liver controls the tendons and the body's movements, and the liver and kidney are of the same origin. Therefore, the main principles of treatment are to strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, nourish the liver and kidney, regenerate muscles and cure atrophy, and strengthen tendons and bones. Dozens of precious Chinese herbal medicines such as ginseng, astragalus, whole worm, tortoise shell, and angelica have been used to develop a series of immune prescriptions. Long-term clinical practice has confirmed that this medicine can restore atrophied and weak muscles to varying degrees, prevent muscle atrophy and joint contracture and deformation, and the therapeutic effect is ideal.

Differential diagnosis 1. Acute or subacute muscular atrophy is generally neurogenic atrophy, and its occurrence rate is related to the speed and degree of nerve damage. The more acute and severe the nerve damage and interruption, the faster and more obvious the muscle atrophy will occur. In acute onset, muscular atrophy occurs after paralysis, and the main clinical manifestation is paralysis, such as poliomyelitis, peripheral neuritis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, alcohol poisoning, etc. The early symptoms of neuralgic amyotrophy are severe pain near the shoulder blade, followed by decreased muscle tone, paralysis and muscle atrophy near the shoulder blade. Single atrophy may occur in certain muscle groups in a mosaic manner.

2. Progressive muscular atrophy of the distal limbs is often neurogenic muscular atrophy, which mainly affects the distal limbs. The interosseous muscles, thenar and hypothenar muscles of the upper limbs are obvious, while the atrophy of the tibialis anterior muscles of the lower limbs is more obvious. The two sides are basically symmetrical, often occurring before paralysis and as a single symptom. Common diseases include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis type of motor neuron disease and progressive spinal muscular atrophy, and distal upper limb weakness and muscle atrophy caused by cervical spondylosis. Gastrocnemius muscular atrophy is characterized by muscle atrophy along the lower 1/3 of the thigh, accompanied by deep and superficial sensory impairment and sensory ataxia. In addition, syringomyelia, spinal vascular malformations, leprosy and chronic poliomyelitis can all cause progressive muscular atrophy of the distal limbs. The muscle diseases myotonia atrophica and distal progressive muscular dystrophy also manifest as muscle atrophy in the distal limbs.