What to do with tenosynovitis during confinement

In real life, many women feel pain in their wrists every time they hold their babies after or during the confinement period. The pain is especially severe at night. In severe cases, even twisting a towel hurts. Some people think they have fallen off the tree. In fact, this is not the case. Many new mothers have similar symptoms. In fact, this is radial styloid stenosing tenosynovitis, also known as tenosynovitis. So, what should we do if we have tendonitis during the confinement period?

What to do with tendonitis during confinement

Tenosynovitis is a common disease in daily life, and most of the women who do tailoring, sewing, painting and breastfeeding will suffer from it. The main reason is that the joints are injured due to repeated use, excessive fatigue, and failure to give the joints adequate rest. Because in the case of excessive activity, some friction will often occur between the tendon and the tendon sheath. This friction will cause edema and fibrosis, and the pain and obstruction caused by it is tenosynovitis.

Tenosynovitis during the confinement period is mostly caused by excessive fatigue from holding the baby. The treatment is initially dominated by acupuncture therapy, and hot compress and massage of the painful area, as well as acupuncture therapy with flurbiprofen papule ointment can be considered. Another method is to use topical analgesics such as fenamide. Pay attention to rest and temporarily reduce activities such as holding children. Use more foaming water. If the pain persists, you can consider closed therapy. If severe tenosynovitis does not improve significantly after traditional treatment, surgical complete release treatment may be considered if necessary.

Tenosynovitis suffered during the confinement period can be completely treated systematically, but there are some special drugs that cannot be used. For example, the blockade, which is the most effective treatment for tenosynovitis and has very little trauma, cannot be used during the confinement period. Since the drugs used in closed treatment are generally hormone drugs, once they enter the blood, they will have a greater impact on the baby, so they cannot be used. However, other treatment options can be used, such as traditional treatments such as microwave acupuncture therapy, external application of blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs, or external application of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which have very little effect on infants. In addition, acupuncture knife treatment or surgical treatment can be considered to treat tenosynovitis during the confinement period, which will not have a significant impact on the baby.

This disease is more common in breastfeeding women because the synovium is more tired due to endocrine changes in breastfeeding women. As for the situation of tenosynovitis, we should adopt active measures to carry out medical care, prevention and treatment.

Some better daily medical care methods are as follows:

1. Remember to get more rest. Try to reduce the weight on your wrist, that is, reduce the movement of your wrist. This will reduce the friction of the tendons in the tendon sheath of the wrist. When the friction is reduced, the symptoms will be alleviated.

2. Apply hot compress. As we all know, hot compress can accelerate the blood circulation system in some parts, make the blood flow better, and promote the excretion of metabolic waste. This can accelerate the disappearance of tendon inflammation and edema, which will be more conducive to the recovery of the disease.

3. Exercise moderately. Women can add appropriate elbow function exercises on the basis of hot compress to prevent adhesion from getting worse. However, it is not advisable to exercise for too long, about 20 to 30 minutes a day will be enough.

4. Develop the habit of washing and disinfecting your hands with warm water. Women should develop the habit of washing their hands with warm water after exercise, instead of cold water, and then exercise their hands moderately.

5. Rotate your wrist moderately. When the symptom starts to cause tingling, you can do some gentle arm exercises to relieve the pain. Proper wrist rotation is a very simple exercise. Generally, it takes about 2 minutes to rotate the wrist. It can exercise all the muscles of the wrist up and down and restore the good circulation of blood. Moreover, it can also eliminate the bent posture of the wrist, which is also very helpful for the recovery of tenosynovitis.