How to deal with sprained foot?

There are often some injuries in life, such as sprained ankles. At this time, many people will think of promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, hot compress or rubbing the injured part with their hands. However, instead of accelerating recovery, this may lead to more serious conditions, such as swelling and ecchymosis of the wound. Usually, sports injuries are divided into acute stage, remission stage and rehabilitation stage, and healing should also be carried out in stages.

Acute growth period: immediately apply cold compress for 20 minutes.

Acute phase usually refers to 24 or 48 hours after injury, at which time the injured tissue may bleed, resulting in local acute inflammatory reactions such as redness, swelling, heat pain and dysfunction. Patients should stop their activities and choose cold compress, pressure dressing and lifting the injured limb according to the situation. Generally, cold compress is followed by pressure dressing, which can also be carried out at the same time.

Cold compress is generally 20 minutes each time, every 4 hours 1 time; Stop using it after 24 or 48 hours. When bandaging, you can put cotton or sponge with appropriate thickness on the injured part, and bandage it with a little force, and always pay attention to the situation of the bandaging part. If the bandage is too loose or too tight, it must be bandaged again. Generally speaking, it can be removed after 24 hours of pressure dressing.

If there is pain after the injury, you can use Yunnan Baiyao (Chinese patent medicine) and other external drugs to quickly reduce swelling and pain and relieve acute inflammation. Those with severe pain can take painkillers such as Fenbid, and those with severe type A congestion can take Da Die Pill and Qili Powder. During this period, you should not apply hot compress or massage to the injured part, otherwise it will aggravate bleeding and exudate of tissue fluid, and make the injured part more swollen.

Although the wound can't be rubbed, you can press the acupoints along the surrounding meridians, which is beneficial to detumescence and pain relief. For example, wrist injury and swelling, point Quchi, Neiguan and Hegu; Ankle injury, a little blood, triple intercourse. Even if the injured or their families don't know the acupoints, it doesn't matter, as long as they press the right position.