How to protect the elbow? The elbow joint is an important part of our body. Elbow joint plays an important role in people's daily life and work. Most of the activities of hands and arms are dominated by it. In case of pain and restriction, people's lives are seriously affected. Let's take a look at how to protect the elbow joint and related information.

How to protect 1 from being elbowed? Stretching and rotating the arm can also strain the ligament near the elbow joint. In addition, many people know "elbow" or "elbow", which is caused by the repeated movement of elbow. Improper use of hands can easily cause elbow pain, inflammation and other symptoms, which brings a lot of inconvenience. If you want to avoid elbow pain, you'd better master the following principles in your life:

1, housewives had better use trolleys instead of baskets when buying food; Pay attention to your wrist posture when carrying heavy objects, and don't bend over.

2. Don't exercise excessively or for a long time. Wear elbow pads if necessary. If acute injury occurs during labor or exercise, stop activities immediately and use cold water shower or ice to compress the affected area for 30 minutes.

3, pay attention to the usual work or sports posture, the mobile phone time can not be too long, if you use the mobile phone for a long time, you should pay attention to changing hands; You can also wear it to answer the phone.

When playing tennis or badminton, you'd better choose a racket with light weight, good elasticity and good quality to reduce the burden on your arm. Before playing ball, do elbow and elbow warm-up exercises.

5, don't sleep with your head on your arm at noon, reduce the bad posture of your arm supporting the table, because this will also lead to elbow discomfort.

6. Pay attention to correct the posture of holding tools such as spatula and kitchen knife to reduce the stress on the hands. When mopping the floor, the legs are slightly bent, and the shoulders and arms are driven by the strength of the waist and legs, not just the strength of the arms.

7. If the plasterer or painter causes tennis elbow due to work, the workload should be reduced immediately to avoid the deterioration of the condition.

8. It's best to change the handle to a large one when grasping something, so that you won't exert too much force. When using, it is best to put the mouse close to the body to avoid stretching the elbow ligament. Bending and straightening the arm 10 times a day can keep the tendons and ligaments soft.

How to treat elbow pain?

1, rest: elbow injuries. The first choice is to let the elbow rest to make the inflammation subside, but it should be noted that long-term braking will make the elbow stiff.

2. Ice compress and hot compress: Ice compress and hot compress are common methods to treat elbow pain. How to choose them? How long will it take? It should be decided by the doctor.

3, traction: traction around the elbow muscles and tendons can treat some elbow pain.

4. Physical therapy: Physical therapy is an important aspect of orthopedic injury treatment. Different methods were used to enhance muscle strength, restore joint mobility and help patients recover their activity level before injury.

5, anti-inflammatory drugs: commonly used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory painkillers (nsaids), especially when the cause of elbow pain is synovitis or tendinitis.

6, injection of cortisone: elbow pain generally occurs inflammation, cortisone is a powerful anti-inflammatory drug.

Emergency treatment of elbow joint

Although dislocation of elbow joint generally does not cause much harm to the body, if it cannot be treated correctly immediately, it will also affect the future sports ability or cause some inconvenience to life. Don't panic if a friend around you or yourself suddenly dislocates your elbow. You can deal with it urgently in the following ways and seek medical help immediately.

1, fix it with the posture you see. Under normal circumstances, the injured usually hold the injured arm reflexively after being injured, so as to achieve the purpose of relieving pain. The basic principle of first aid is "fix with the posture you see", so the rescuer should try to fix the injured arm according to this posture, check the injury, and place a cushion between the injured limb and the body.

2. Fix the forearm with a wide bandage. Fix the forearm of the injured arm loosely on one side with a wide bandage, headscarf or the like, place a cushion between them and tie a knot on the healthy side.

3. Fix the upper arm with a wide bandage. Wrap the injured upper arm in a wide bag and fix it firmly on one side of the body.

4. Fix the injured arm near the elbow. Use the third bandage to cling to the elbow and fix the injured arm tightly on the side. Put a cushion under the patient's head to make the injured person feel as warm and comfortable as possible. Do not move the patient during the whole treatment and wait for the arrival of the personnel.

How to protect your elbow? How to protect your elbow by practicing yoga?

1. When practicing, you need to bring your awareness of the body. Consciousness is very important. With consciousness, we also need to ensure that the bones are in the right position (refers to orthoses) and the joints are in the right position. We need to exercise muscle strength to ensure that the bones are in the right position, so a large part of yoga is muscle endurance exercise. Use muscle endurance to stabilize the body and joints, so as to ensure that the joints will not be injured.

2, the action should be slow, breathing drives the body into the pose, breathing will make the pose enter the root depth, and the pose will make the breathing fuller. When you move slowly and consciously with your breath, your muscles will not be tense.

3, the foundation should be stable, the place where the body touches the ground is called the foundation, and the foundation needs to be stable when entering or changing the body.

How to protect your body from harm by practicing yoga?

1, wrist

When doing hand support, ten fingers should be stretched to the maximum, and each finger should be far away from each other. Fingertips and the root of each finger press the floor tightly, then press the root of the palm down and put the center of gravity in the first two thirds of the palm. In this case, you can free your wrists, separate your fingers and mobilize your arm muscles. When the muscles are hard, the pressure on the wrist will be reduced.

2. Waist

Waist protection is to tighten the abdomen at all times, push the navel backward to the spine, lift the ribs upward and inward, and control the sternum in this position.

When you stand, touch the front side of your body, your ribs and abdomen are not protruding, your coccyx is straight down, your hips should not lean back too much, and your pelvis should return to the center of your body. At this time, the lumbar spine has no pressure, showing natural bending and no excessive bending.

3. Knee

When standing, the big toe and the little toe of the sole of your foot are completely attached to the ground, then push the ground hard, and then separate each toe. This will mobilize the muscles of your thigh, lift your patella, and tighten the muscles of your thigh upward. At this time, you can touch the thigh surface tightly, which can protect your knees and be soft and stress-free.

How to protect your elbow 3 Why does your left elbow hurt?

The elbow joint consists of the lower end of the humerus and the upper ends of the ulna and radius, and includes three joints, namely, the humerus-ulna joint, the humerus-radius joint and the proximal radioulna joint. It can do flexion and extension, and also participate in pronation and supination of forearm.

The humeral-ulnar joint of elbow joint can make flexion and extension movement along the slightly inclined frontal axis; The proximal radioulnar joint and the distal radioulnar joint are combined joints that must move at the same time to control the rotation of the forearm (see below); Although the brachioradialis joint belongs to ball-and-socket joint.

However, it can only cooperate with the activities of the above two joints, that is, it can perform flexion and extension movement together with the humeral-ulnar joint and rotate along the longitudinal axis with the proximal radioulnar joint, but it loses the ability of adduction and abduction of the sagittal axis.

Causes of hand and elbow pain:

1, ankylosing spondylitis: The joints involved are often lumbar vertebrae, sacroiliac joints, hip joints and knee joints, which may be accompanied by joint swelling and pain. Pain in the waist and buttocks and tight back movements are its characteristics, which are more common in young male patients.

2, rheumatic cold joint pain: more common in cold areas, the incidence rate is very high, most joint pain belongs to this category. Patients often work in water, have postpartum colds, live or work in a dark environment and have a dark history. Pain is sore or dull, with strong activity and no swelling, which is closely related to climate change.

3, osteoarthritis: more common in wrist joints, elbow joints, knee joints and other joints with heavy load or workload. Osteomegaly appears in the affected joints, and the skin has no redness, swelling and heat pain, which is more common in patients over middle age.

In the above article, we introduced the important role of elbow joint in human body. We suggest that readers do a good job in protecting the elbow joint in daily life, and treat it in time once the elbow joint has diseases. The causes of elbow pain are described in detail above.