1, the treatment of osteoporosis
Pain spreads to both sides along the spine, which is relieved when lying on your back or sitting up, aggravated when standing upright or standing for a long time, and aggravated when bending over, coughing and defecating are difficult. Generally, bone pain can occur when bone mass is lost 12% or more. If the corresponding spinal nerve is compressed, it can produce radiation pain in limbs, sensorimotor disorder in both lower limbs, intercostal neuralgia and retrosternal pain similar to angina pectoris.
Osteoporosis is the imbalance of hormone self-regulation and low bone formation due to aging. Bone formation promoters, such as active vitamin D, anabolic steroids, fluorinating agents and vitamin K2, should be selected for treatment. Of course, calcium supplementation in daily food can be used as one of the adjuvant treatments for osteoporosis. However, if osteoporosis has already formed, simply eating more calcium-containing foods cannot replace drug treatment. Proper outdoor activities during medication can enhance the curative effect.
2. Treatment of osteoarthritis
When I get up in the morning, the pain is more severe. A little exercise will relieve the pain. After excessive activity, the pain will reappear and can be relieved again after rest. Leg pain caused by knee osteoarthritis is related to climate change, which is aggravated in cold weather and relieved in warm weather. At the same time, the patient's knees are weak when walking, and the pain is obviously aggravated when going upstairs and downstairs.
2. 1, early exercise therapy and early exercise can also achieve the purpose of treatment. First, we should lose weight through exercise, do more exercise to enhance muscle strength and avoid climbing mountains and other sports; However, it should be noted that during the acute inflammatory period, it is forbidden to exercise, walk less and sit more. After the inflammation subsides, you can choose walking, jogging, swimming, Tai Ji Chuan and other mild exercises that have little influence on the joints to improve joint function and promote rehabilitation.
2.2, early physical therapy For early osteoarthritis, physical methods can be used, especially for patients who are intolerant to drugs. Hot compress, ultrashort wave irradiation, iontophoresis of traditional Chinese medicine, fumigation of traditional Chinese medicine, hydrotherapy, wax therapy, etc. Can be selected according to needs, which is helpful to relieve pain and accompanying muscle spasm, and maintain and restore joint function.
3. Clinical manifestations and treatment of arteriosclerosis of lower limbs
The main clinical manifestations are chills, numbness, pain, intermittent claudication, disappearance of arterial pulse, malnutrition of limb tissue, toe or foot ulcer or gangrene.
Treatment: Chinese medicine believes that nourishing bone with kidney, nourishing tendons with liver and warming kidney and soothing liver are effective methods to treat leg pain in the elderly, which can effectively improve the symptoms of leg pain in the elderly and improve various bone diseases in the elderly from the root. Some patients with obvious joint pain can use some topical liniments.
Methods to relieve the symptoms of leg pain in the elderly
1, pay attention to calcium supplementation.
Leg pain in the elderly may be due to osteoporosis, but many people with osteoporosis have a misunderstanding, that is, to improve osteoporosis, it is necessary to supplement calcium in large quantities, especially the elderly should try not to blindly eat calcium tablets and should eat complementary foods.
Step 2 keep exercising
Lack of exercise in the elderly will lead to more serious calcium loss, lack of outdoor exercise, less sunshine, serious lack of vitamin D in the body and leg pain. First of all, we should lose weight through exercise, do more exercise to enhance muscle strength, and avoid climbing mountains and other sports.
3. Emotional peace
The life of the elderly is not always comfortable and leisurely. People who are affected by emotions and overworked will have physical and mental fatigue, such as headache, backache, weakness of limbs, poor energy, insomnia and other symptoms. Among them, backache and leg pain are more obvious. This is because the muscles of the elderly are in a state of tension for too long, the metabolism is accelerated, and the concentration of lactic acid in the blood is increased. This requires the elderly to adjust their emotions and reduce their work.
4, pay attention to keep warm
Most pains prefer heat to cold. Most elderly people have mild or severe osteoarthritis. Heat can increase blood circulation and eliminate inflammation, while cold stimulation is just the opposite. Therefore, in order to reduce the occurrence of pain, it is very important for the elderly to keep their limbs warm.
What acupoints does the old man massage with leg pain?
1, push the waist, hips and legs
Stand with your left lunge akimbo. Separate the tiger's mouth with the palm of your right hand, with your thumb in front, push the waist on the same side, and then push it down hard until you reach the thigh and calf through your hips and bend your body to the right. Then lunge with your right hand and push your left waist, hips and legs with your left hand. Push alternately 4~ 10 times.
2. Kunlun point
Kunlun point is a special point for treating low back pain. Proper massage can relieve low back pain. Manipulation is not difficult to master, Kunlun point can press the depression behind the lateral ankle with your fingers and move to the posterior tendon for 1~2 minutes.
3. Chengshan point
Chengshan point belongs to the bladder meridian of foot sun, which is located in the middle of the back of human calf and below gastrocnemius muscle. When you straighten your calf or lift your heel, there will be a herringbone depression in your calf, just at the sharp corner of the depression. Pressing this point frequently can relax tendons and activate collaterals, strengthen tendons and tonify deficiency, and has a good effect on relieving low back pain, leg pain and hamstring spasm.