How to heal soft tissue injuries quickly? Don’t take it lightly

Soft tissue disease is a very common disease caused by tissue damage due to strain, and patients often feel pain and swelling. If your symptoms are mild, you can handle them yourself. However, once abnormalities are found in tissue areas, you should go to the hospital in time to find out the cause and receive correct treatment.

Soft tissue injury refers to a large category of trauma syndromes caused by direct or indirect violence, or long-term chronic strain on soft tissue or skeletal muscles. After the tissue is injured, microcirculation disorders and aseptic inflammation occur, causing local swelling and pain.

If the soft tissue is injured within 24 hours, local cold compress can be used to reduce swelling and reduce soft tissue bleeding. After 48 hours, local hot compress or physical therapy can be used. Combined with blood circulation and blood stasis drugs, the repair of local injuries can be accelerated. Local activities should be reduced to avoid aggravation of the injury. However, the repair of soft tissue injuries takes a certain amount of time, and it usually takes 2-3 weeks to fully recover.

Treatment options

1. If shock occurs, treat the shock first.

2. If bleeding occurs, stop it immediately.

For mild or moderate bleeding, pressure bandage or packing can be used to stop the bleeding; for bleeding from large blood vessels in the limbs, apply a tourniquet first and prepare for surgery to stop the bleeding as soon as possible. The tourniquet should be loosened once every 30 minutes before surgery. When blood loss is heavy, blood transfusion should be given promptly. If bleeding does not stop, emergency surgery should be performed to stop the bleeding. For patients with severe pain, pethidine or morphine, or other sedatives or analgesics can be given. When there is a fracture, the injured limb should be properly immobilized.

3. Patients with compartment syndrome and compression syndrome should be treated promptly.

4. Treatment of severe closed contusion.

(1) Place ice packs or cold compresses around the limbs in the early stages. Once the bleeding stops (usually after 24 to 48 hours), use hot compresses to promote absorption of local blood stasis. If necessary, give antibiotics to prevent and treat infection.

(2) If the edema is severe and affects the blood circulation of the limbs, or if the calf or forearm is severely squeezed and has muscle dysfunction and weakened arterial pulsation, early incision and relief should be performed. The skin, deep fascia and myometrium should be cut open longitudinally in multiple places, and then the upper flow should be loosely filled with saline gauze strips. If the poisoning symptoms are severe, retaining the affected limb will be life-threatening, and amputation should be considered.