Things to note after getting a closed injection, preventing infection is the most important thing

Many middle-aged and elderly people suffer from arm pain and back pain. The most common ones are frozen shoulder, lumbar muscle strain, and tenosynovitis. Generally, you can choose to give a blocking injection when treating such diseases, but you should pay attention to some matters after the injection, especially to keep the skin clean to avoid infection.

1. Notes

Doctors should perform sterile operations when performing closed treatment on patients, strictly disinfect the clean skin area before injection, the injection site should be accurate, the medication should be appropriate, and the patient should be observed for 15 minutes after the injection to prevent allergic reactions and other reactions. Pay attention to keeping the skin clean within 3 days after closing to prevent contamination.

2. Treatment Plan

Orthopedic surgeons value them for treating the various pain conditions mentioned above, primarily for their anti-inflammatory effects. They can improve the permeability of capillaries, inhibit inflammatory responses, and reduce the damage of pathogenic factors to the body. Procaine (also known as novocaine) is a local anesthetic used at the same time. It is used for local anesthesia during tooth extraction and minor surgery. It can relieve pain and enhance the effect. Its analogue lidocaine is sometimes used, with similar effects.

Do I need to get it again after I've had the "blocking injection"? We know that these hormones are not addictive. However, long-term use can lead to habit and dependence. Habitual disease is caused by long-term and repeated use of hormones to relieve symptoms, which forms a conditioned reflex. After stopping the medication, the patient feels uncomfortable or fearful. At this time, after giving a small amount of hormones, the symptoms quickly disappear. Dependence means that after certain diseases are treated with hormones, the symptoms are completely controlled or partially relieved. However, if the hormones are suddenly stopped or the dosage is reduced too quickly, the original disease will relapse or worsen, resulting in the so-called "rebound" phenomenon. Both of these situations may only occur after long-term, high-dose, and repeated use of hormones. Orthopedics uses blockade therapy, usually once or several times depending on the condition of the disease. Each time interval is 7 to 10 days, and generally no more than 3 to 4 times in a row. If continued injections are required, the intervals will be long and the doses used will be small. Therefore, since the implementation of this treatment method, the phenomenon of "constant need for injections" has rarely occurred.