Acupuncture combined with reinforcement Treatment of acute ankle sprains 
 
 
Zhu Ma Liang Zhengzhou city people's hospital of the 11 city hospital 
 
 
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    Ankle sprains also called from the leg joint sprains, the ankle is the largest joint in the body weight, is also the most vulnerable of the joints, is the clinical common disease of the joints sprain, can happen at any age, but to young adults more, clinical generally divided into two major categories of varus and valgus sprain, but see more with the former. The disease has obvious history of trauma. Ankle injury after severe pain, local swelling, and subcutaneous ecchymosis, with a limp. If a local tenderness obviously, varus sprained, would be enough for varus gesture, external ankle from the pain; If outer sprain, will make eversion gesture, medial malleolus from the pain. X-ray inspection did not see fracture. Richard reinforcement comprehensive treatment in combination with clinical use of TCM acupuncture has obvious effect.
 
    1 ~ 3 days early ankle sprain is given priority to with local tissue edema, bleeding, should use cold, relieve local swelling, bleeding to avoid hot compress aggravate symptoms.
 
    Stitch: give priority to with local find holes. O varus st 41, is the hole, too creek, destroyed, shen mai, kunlun hole; Eversion in shangqiu, st 41, is acupuncture point, according to the sea. Conventional acupuncture point with 75% alcohol disinfection, one inch needle routine method, line needle technique catharsis, retaining needle and TDP diathermy treatment for half an hour, generally once a day, five times a week. Two treatment on Monday for a sprained lighter significantly reduce 3 ~ 5 times.
 
    Richard reinforcement technique: the patient supine, the healer in one hand hold patients suffering from parapodum with, another hand holding the toe, slowly for ankle back stretch, buckling and varus and valgus action; His center within the grip on external ankle, a traction pulling action, and use the remaining four fingers conveniently do top-down method, tension, repeated several times; Point massage local shangqiu, st 41, destroyed, kunlun, too, according to the sea, shen mai acupuncture point, technique to patients with tolerance for degrees, 5 ~ 10 minutes or so every time, with t2dm with the pain.
 
    TCM holds that the disease is "jin", local context, due to damage the dread of qi and blood stasis resistance, general clauses pain, so that the local swelling and pain and restricted movement. So take partial shangqiu, st 41, destroyed, kunlun, creek, according to the sea, shen mai to promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, only strengthen the pain. Bake TDP light treatment has warm stimulation to the skin, make the body metabolic wastes and toxins out faster, thus improving the nutrition of local muscle tissue, common purpose of treatment.
 
    Modern clinical studies suggest that acupuncture can adjust sprain local blood circulation state, in order to reduce exudation, promote metabolism, accelerate the absorption of blood stasis, edema, relieve the stimulation of various metabolites of sprains, thus promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis analgesic effect.
 
    For damage serious braking treatment should be adopted, to avoid worse damage. Early effective treatment, can prevent or reduce the habitual ankle sprains.
 
 
 
 
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