How to treat hand muscle atrophy?

Physical health has always been something that everyone needs to pay attention to. Many people suffer from hand muscle atrophy due to long-term lack of exercise or long-term bed rest. The treatment method to be chosen is to use traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine physiotherapy to carry out detailed and effective treatment. It is also very important to do a good job in the patient's health care, keep the mood happy, make reasonable adjustments to the diet, and combine work and rest.

Chinese Medicine

Patients with muscular atrophy have to stay in bed for a long time due to muscle atrophy and muscle weakness, and are prone to complications such as pneumonia and bedsores. In addition, most patients experience symptoms of medullary paralysis, which poses a great threat to their lives. In addition to seeking medical treatment, self-treatment is very important for patients with muscular atrophy.

In the treatment of muscular atrophy, TCM should identify the damaged internal organs, focus on strengthening the body's health while taking into account the elimination of pathogenic factors, and assist 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. Early treatment should focus on strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi, mid-term treatment should focus on tonifying the spleen and replenishing kidneys, and late-stage treatment should nourish the liver and kidneys and nourish yin and replenish qi.

Muscular dystrophy patient care

1. Maintain an optimistic and happy mood. Intense, long-term or repeated mental stress, anxiety, irritability, pessimism and other emotional changes can cause an imbalance in the excitation and inhibition processes of the cerebral cortex, aggravate muscle twitching and cause muscle atrophy to develop.

2. Rationally adjust the diet structure. Patients with muscular atrophy need high-protein, high-energy dietary supplements to provide the substances necessary for the reconstruction of nerve cells and skeletal muscle cells in order to enhance muscle strength and grow muscles. They should adopt high-protein foods rich in vitamins, phospholipids and trace elements in the early stage, and actively cooperate with medicated diets, such as yam, coix seed, lotus seed heart, tangerine peel, pseudoginseng, lily, etc., avoid spicy foods, and quit smoking and drinking. For patients in the middle and late stages, a high-protein, high-nutrition, energy-rich semi-liquid and liquid diet is the main diet, and small and frequent meals are adopted to maintain the patient's nutrition and water and electrolyte balance.

3. Combine work and rest. Avoid forced sexual exercise, because forced sexual exercise will cause skeletal muscle fatigue, which is not conducive to the recovery of skeletal muscle function, regeneration and repair of muscle cells.

4. Strictly prevent colds and gastroenteritis. Because patients with muscular atrophy have low immune function or some kind of immune deficiency, once they catch a cold, their condition will worsen, the course of the disease will be prolonged, and muscle atrophy and muscle twitching will worsen. Especially patients with bulbar palsy are prone to lung infection. If not treated in time, the prognosis will be poor and even the patient's life will be endangered.

5. Gastroenteritis can lead to dysfunction of intestinal bacteria, especially viral gastroenteritis, which can cause varying degrees of damage to the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord, thereby causing increased muscle twitching, decreased muscle strength, and recurrence or aggravation of the disease in patients with muscular atrophy. Maintaining normal digestive function for patients with muscular atrophy is the basis for recovery.