It is easy for people to get scapulohumeral periarthritis after middle age, especially women. My shoulder hurts, so I can't do many actions, such as combing my hair, washing my face and even getting dressed. Like sweaters, you can only wear buttons or zippers, not pullovers. This has brought great inconvenience to everyone's life. So how to treat periarthritis of shoulder? Tell everyone about it.
What is the definition of scapulohumeral periarthritis?
Periarthritis of shoulder is a chronic injury disease which causes shoulder pain and dysfunction due to soft tissue lesions around shoulder joint. More common in women over 40 years old, more left shoulder. Also known as scapulohumeral periarthritis, fifty shoulders and so on. It is characterized by shoulder pain and dysfunction gradually increasing, post-pain gradually fading, function slowly recovering, and finally self-healing, with a course of several months or longer. But if it is not treated properly, it is easy to have sequelae.
Causes of scapulohumeral periarthritis
1. Soft tissue degeneration around the shoulder joint, such as subcapillary bursitis of biceps brachii and tenosynovitis. Become fragile.
2. Long-term overwork, posture problems and other chronic strain of tissues around the shoulder joint.
3. Upper limb trauma is fixed for too long, such as fracture or dislocation. Cause adhesion or atrophy.
4. Improper treatment of acute shoulder injury.
5. Other diseases that cause shoulder pain, such as coronary heart disease and cholecystitis. , leading to limited shoulder joint activity, and then adhesion.
Symptoms of scapulohumeral periarthritis
The course of scapulohumeral periarthritis can be divided into three stages: 1. Solidification stage. 2. Freezing period. 3. Thawing period.
1. Pain around the shoulder. At first, it was chronic paroxysmal pain, and then it gradually worsened, showing persistent pain. It will get worse at night. Pain can radiate to the neck and upper limbs without numbness.
2. There are obvious pain points. Tenderness points can be found around the shoulders. Mostly on the front.
3. Shoulder joint activity is limited. In particular, backward extension and lateral lifting are seriously affected in all directions.
4. Shoulders are afraid of cold. Cold weather will aggravate the pain, so you should pay great attention to keeping your shoulders warm.
5. Long course of disease is easy to cause muscle atrophy due to less activity.
The above is to let everyone know how scapulohumeral periarthritis is produced, and the symptoms are introduced to let everyone have a preliminary diagnosis.
Treatment of scapulohumeral periarthritis
1. Pay attention to rest and don't overstep your shoulders. 2. Physical therapy methods such as local hot compress, moxibustion and baking lamp. 3. Take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs orally to relieve local aseptic inflammation. It is feasible to block the pain point if necessary. 5. Severe cases can be released by manipulation under anesthesia. 6. Strengthen the exercise of shoulder joint activity. The range of action should be gradually increased and persisted every day. The classic ones are finger climbing, swimming, pull-ups and so on.
In addition to treatment, we must also take precautions. After all, keeping it from getting sick is the best treatment. 1. combine work and rest to reduce its strain. 2. Actively treat other diseases that cause shoulder pain. 3. Pay attention to shoulder joint insulation. 4. Exercise and move the shoulder joint.
Scapulohumeral periarthritis is easily confused with rotator cuff injury, cervical spondylosis and other diseases, which need to be diagnosed and treated clearly. I hope these can help everyone.
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