Do you have neck, shoulder and back pain on a regular basis? I feel that I get up in the morning very sore, and the activity has a tingling sensation, but the symptoms disappear after a period of rest or activity for a while, so I don't care too much.
In fact, this situation is often caused by myofasciitis of the neck, shoulders and back, and myofasciitis of the lower back is also particularly common, many people do not care too much, and they feel that they can pass by a straight stand, but Dr. Xie wants to tell you that do not take the bean bag improper dry food, take tendonitis for a long time, and eventually lead to unbearable symptoms, which seriously affects your quality of life.
On the issue of myofasciitis, let's start with a heart-wrenching case.
The eldest sister has been in pain in the neck and shoulder for 10 years
This eldest sister, in her 50s, is the sister of a counselor at our hospital. Mainly because what comes to the hospital? It is because of the long-term neck, shoulder, back pain, she herself can feel, the right shoulder and shoulder back, obviously much higher than the left side, according to her description, the neck, shoulder, back pain has been up to 10 years, the initial symptoms are not obvious, just in the morning, the shoulder, back has a feeling of soreness, but the symptoms are getting more and more serious, slowly began to appear in the morning, the entire neck and shoulder back of the heaviness has a tingling, but the activity can be alleviated, the big sister still does not care.
With the extension of time, this pain lasts longer and longer, the shoulder joint and neck are used for a little longer, it will induce serious pain, and the stiffness has begun to appear, sometimes it will hurt at night, it is not just in the morning to show symptoms, but this big sister still did not come to the hospital for treatment, to say that it is really quite powerful (let's not learn from her).
Recently, the pain has seriously affected sleep, and sometimes it hurts so much that she can't sleep for an hour at night, so she decided to let her sister lead her to the hospital to see.
During the examination, we found that her entire right neck, the right side of the neck and shoulder back, had obviously hardened, and when we pressed the muscles, we felt not the soft feeling of the muscles that should have, but like touching a stone. Each press can induce unbearable pain in the patient.
Give the patient to check the X-ray of the neck, found that the entire neck curvature has been significantly changed, under normal circumstances our cervical spine is curved, and it is a "C" shaped result, her neck has appeared reverse arch, the entire cervical spine has obvious bone hyperplasia, there is a large number of ectopic ossification, which also indicates that her cervical spine has been having problems for a long time.
The problem of the cervical spine for a long time has led to excessive stretching of the muscle fascia of his entire neck and shoulder back, and the long-term continuous excessive stretching has led to damage and tearing of muscles and fascia, and this tear will slowly form scars, which in turn will lead to the hardening of the entire muscles and fascia, and the cord is striped.
Locally, there will be obvious lack of oxygen and energy metabolism, so local blood circulation will become less and less, which is also a very important reason for her long-term pain.
To such an extent, there is no good way to alleviate the problem, because the damage has reached an irreversible level, and the soft muscles have become hardened and stiff, and it is really difficult to reverse it.
So this is a very heart-wrenching case, so for the muscle and fascia problems, can we detect them early, can we deal with the symptoms, and prevent them from developing to such a serious extent? The answer is yes.
Let's talk a little bit, what should we do if you have a problem with your muscle fascia? How not to let it develop to such a serious extent.
What exactly does myofasciitis mean?
I don't know if you have eaten a dish called spicy tenderloin, in fact, this tenderloin is the fascia wrapped around the outside of the muscle!
We human muscles are also outside!
It helps us to better stabilize the muscles, wrap them around them, and play a very important role.
However, if in the long-term overuse, the muscle fascia will be subjected to excessive stretching for a long time, and a small tear will occur. This tear sometimes heals slowly over time, but if the cause of muscle tearing, such as improper standing posture for a long time, improper sitting posture, long time bowing down, excessive use of our cervical and lumbar vertebrae, it may lead to more and more of these tears, more and more widespread, and finally condensed into nodules.
This is also when many of us press our neck, shoulders, and back pain, we will feel that there is a distinct nodular structure, and the pressure will radiate to the shoulder back, upper limbs or lower limbs, which is myofasciitis, which we also call trigger points or pain points in medicine.
Over the years, we have found that patients who have this situation are getting younger and younger, which is directly related to our long-term use of computers, desk work, long-term looking down at mobile phones and lifestyle choices.
In the early stage, the patient will show the tingling sensation described earlier, but after appropriate rest or activity can alleviate the symptoms, but with the prolongation of time, the factors that cause these problems are not removed, then the symptoms may become more and more serious, and if you want to control myofasciitis, the early stage is a very important stage.
At this time, we can take or take some anti-inflammatory analgesics or externally in the painful area, such as diclofenac sodium latex or flubiprofen gel paste, etc., which can help us control inflammation and control pain very well.
When the symptoms slowly continue to be more serious, then at this time we must not only take oral or external drugs, but also find a professional manual therapist to help us loosen the muscles and fascia that are tightly glued together, which will play a very important role, and can use the acupuncture treatment of the motherland's medicine, which will also play a very good effect.
When the symptoms are getting more and more serious, you can carry out a treatment called shockwave therapy, it is currently a very effective measure for the treatment of myofasciitis, its main mechanism is to crush the adhesions, inflammation problems through the energy, there is inflammation problematic parts on the microscopic level, and then use our body's own self-repair ability, regrow no problem structure and tissue, then your problem will naturally be solved, you can find this treatment method in the rehabilitation department, rehabilitation physiotherapy department or pain department of major hospitals.
The most important point
In fact, the problem of myofasciitis in the early stage we can easily control it, but the most critical thing is that we often do not pay much attention to it, the result is dragged into a difficult stage to deal with, in the process of dealing with all the courses of myofasciitis, there is a very important one, it runs through various degrees of myofasciitis treatment throughout, that is, scientific and reasonable rehabilitation exercises.
You are cervical or lumbar myofasciitis, can be in the early, middle or late stage of scientific and reasonable rehabilitation exercises, can help us to tension and adhesion of muscles and fascia loosening, this is much more effective than others to help you loosen, but it works more slowly, we need to have patience, to insist, Dr. Xie often say a word, as long as you insist, there is a benefit, but only persistence, there is a benefit.
The following are some relatively simple ways to cause neck, shoulder, back fasciitis or waist and back fasciitis rehabilitation exercises, each action does not need to do too much, insist on doing it every day, with the blessing of time, your tense fascia will slowly be loosened, and your symptoms will be solved.
summary
Myofasciitis is not terrible, but the terrible thing is that we don't care about it, let it become more and more serious, and raise tigers.
So when you have the above symptoms, you must be based on rehabilitation exercises, based on the rational use of our cervical and lumbar vertebrae, do not bow your head for a long time, bend and arch your back for a long time, overuse our cervical and lumbar vertebrae, over-consume our muscles and fascias, then it is likely that there will be problems. In the early, middle, and late stages of the problem, choosing the corresponding treatment method can help us reverse the problem, but we must avoid the big sister mentioned in the article without caring, and the result of dragging on for 10 years has reached a difficult point to solve.
At this time, it is really difficult to ask a doctor to help you solve the problem.
If you have other questions, you can leave a message below and let's discuss it together.
I am Xie Xinhui who insists on explaining the knowledge of complex diseases in simple language, and the code word is not easy! If you agree with my point of view, please help to pay attention to or like it, if you or your family and friends also have positive problems in this regard, but also take the bean bag improper dry food, please forward this article to them in need, let everyone understand the long-term care about the serious consequences that myofasciitis may cause! Thanks!