Self-test: Are you being targeted by the old cold legs?
There are many symptoms of old cold legs, mainly as follows.
1, afraid of cold
It rains on cloudy days, the climate gets cold, or the symptoms get worse after blowing air conditioners.
2. Leg weight
Especially on cloudy days, patients are like sandbags with three or four pounds tied to their legs. When you lift your leg, you don't push yourself, but drag it up.
Step 3: Pain
The pain of old cold legs has three main characteristics:
4. Dead bodies
After waking up in the morning or sitting for a long time, the joints are stiff and slightly improved after exercise.
5. There is a fricative sound
When the knee joint moves, there will be some bone rubbing sounds.
Step 6 expand
In the late stage of old cold legs, the knee joint will swell and deform, and the range of motion will be limited, resulting in persistent pain.
Four kinds of people have bitter legs.
The incidence of old cold legs is very high. The incidence rate of people over 60 years old is nearly 50%, and that of people over 70 years old is nearly 80%. The disability rate of old cold legs is also very high, reaching 53%.
From the data and literal point of view, "old cold legs" is a kind of senile disease. But clinically, doctors have found that young people in their early thirties may also be the target of this disease.
1 obese people
The incidence of osteoarthritis in overweight people is much higher than that in normal people, and the onset age is easy to advance. The study also found that if obese patients lose 5 kilograms, the incidence rate will be reduced by 50%.
2 Work with "knees"
Athletes, models, heavy manual workers, due to professional reasons, knee joint wear and injury, knee is more prone to illness.
Three menopausal women
Menopausal women are prone to injury and pathological changes due to the decrease of estrogen level and joint nutrition. Therefore, the incidence of leg cold in menopausal women is 6 times higher than that in men.
4 Joint injury
Knee joint injury will directly affect cartilage. The surface of cartilage is not smooth and easy to wear in the early stage, but it will degenerate before it is old.
For the above four groups of people, if there are symptoms such as heavy legs, inflexible joints in the morning, repeated redness, swelling, heat and pain in the knee joint, and rubbing noises in the joints during exercise, it is recommended to go to the hospital for X-ray examination to help diagnose the knee joint.
3 ways to keep your legs away from old cold legs
Wen Jianmin, chief physician of the Second Department of Osteoarthrosis, Wangjing Hospital, summarized three methods suitable for family health care.
1 massage
In daily life, we might as well use "rubbing" method and "scraping" method to do joint health care.
2 activities
This set of movements is practiced once a day for about 20 minutes each time, which can exercise the muscles of lower limbs and increase the strength of legs.
3 Chinese medicine lavipeditum
Soaking feet for half an hour every day with traditional Chinese medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, warming yang and relieving pain will make the body and legs warmer and obviously relieve the symptoms of old cold legs.
Prescription for external washing: Radix Aconiti Preparata, Semen Persicae, Carthami Flos, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Rhizoma Chuanxiong each 65,438 05g, Herba speranskiae tuberculatae and Herba Lycopodii each 30g, Radix Glycyrrhizae, Radix Cyathulae and Fructus Chaenomelis each 65438±00g, Notopterygii Rhizoma and Radix Angelicae Pubescentis each 65,438 05g, and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei 20g.
Usage: Boil the above medicinal materials with proper amount of water to remove large residues, then pour the liquid medicine into a big plastic bag (plastic bag is best to cover the feet on the upper part of the calf), soak the feet in the liquid medicine, and then keep warm with a bucket of hot water outside, so that on the one hand, the water temperature will not drop too fast, on the other hand, the concentration of the medicine for soaking feet will be higher.
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