Can tenosynovitis be treated with moxibustion, moxibustion for tenosynovitis

Condition analysis: tenosynovitis can be moxibustion.

Advice: Tenosynovitis is generally caused by injury, overstrain, osteoarthritis, some immune diseases, and even infection. Generally, you can try massage, acupuncture, all have certain curative effects, you can also use hydrocortisone acetate, triamcinolone acetonide acetate or prednisolone acetate into the tendon sheath for local sealing, which has a good effect.

It is recommended that you reduce your activities and allow some rest.

Tie Yan - Hospital of Stomatology Affiliated to Tongji University.

Surgery. Physician.

Disease analysis: Tenosynovitis can cause local pain and functional effects, which can be confirmed by local hospital 3 surgical examination, and can be combined with moxibustion and other physical **, if necessary, closed or small needle knife**.

Suggestions: It is recommended to have a light diet, pay attention to rest, and massage physiotherapy with local hot compresses. Apply voltarin ointment, etc., and consider small needle knife if necessary**.

Tenosynovitis often occurs at the base of the thumb, middle finger, and outside of the wrist. The main manifestation is local pain, inability to do flexion, extension or rotational movements normally. The main reason is to move the joints frequently for a long time, or to wash clothes, vegetables, and dishes with cold water...., exertion and cold lead to qi and blood deficiency, and the flow of qi and blood is not smooth, resulting in local pain and swelling of the joints.

Why does frequent exercise cause tenosynovitis?

Because the tendons are all in the tendon sheath, like wires wrapping around the wires inside. If a person moves the joints frequently, the tendons will rub against each other repeatedly in the tendon sheath, resulting in aseptic inflammatory reactions of the tendon and tendon sheath, exudation, edema and fibrosis, thickening of the sheath wall, and local thickening of the tendon, resulting in the obstruction of the tendon sliding in the tendon sheath, and local swelling, pain, and aggravation of pain when moving the joint. In severe cases, radiation to the forearms and thumb may occur.

How to recuperate: 1. Find the most painful point on the thumb, middle finger or outside of the wrist, use moxa sticks to gently moxibustion, and insist on moxibustion for half an hour every day. If the pain is severe and you feel pain radiating from your forearm and thumb, you can cooperate with moxibustion Hegu and Quchi.

2. When the pain is severe, try to avoid hand activities, such as washing, wring towels, etc.

3. Avoid cold hands, try to wash clothes with warm water, wash vegetables, etc.

4. Avoid overwork. In daily life or work, we should pay attention to the combination of work and rest.

11. Stenosis tenosynovitis of the styloid process of the radius: Quchi, Shousanli, Liegu, Hegu, and the styloid process of the radius. 2. Finger flexor tendonosynovitis: Neiguan, Waiguan, Ah Shi acupoint.

3. Flexural extensor carpal tendonitis: hand sanli, waiguan, neguan, and the radial surface of the extensor side of the forearm.

2. The main points of diagnosis of cold-damp external invasion tenosynovitis are diffuse pain in the elbow, reduced temperature and pain in the sold, aggravated by exertion, inability to rotate the arm, and difficulty in lifting; The moss is thin and the white veins are slow.

The moxibustion acupuncture points that are commonly selected are: elbow, hand sanli, and ruler.

3. Qi and blood stasis obstructive tendon stinging socks should be carefully picked, the main points of diagnosis are a history of sudden arm swinging or twisting of clothing, pain such as a cone stab, radiation to the forearm and wrist, difficulty in holding objects or weakness in holding objects; The moss is thin and white, and the veins are tight.

The moxibustion acupuncture points usually selected are: Qi Ze and Hegu.

4. The diagnosis of liver and kidney tenosynovitis should be elbow pain, light day and night, weakness in holding objects, accompanied by dizziness, tinnitus, backache and knee weakness; The tongue is red and less lichen, and the veins are weak.

The moxibustion acupuncture points usually selected are: Liver Yu, Kidney Yu, Zu Sanli, Sanyin Jiao, and Hand Sanli.

That day, a group friend posted a hand in the group, tenosynovitis for a few years, and now I can't do any work that hurts, and I asked if there is any way**.

Some people in the group suggested purulent moxibustion, and some said to try gua sha.

Before giving a solution, let's first understand the formation of tenosynovitis.

Tenosynovitis, usually caused by overuse of the affected area, is mainly due to long-term use of the thumb or frequent use in a short period of time, resulting in repeated friction of the tendon in the bony fibrous duct to form damaging inflammation.

For example, we often say "mother's hand", because the mother holds the child for a long time, resulting in slow blood stasis circulation in the arm, which affects the thumb joint "ischemia", unable to nourish the joint, plus if you don't pay attention, it is easy to feel the wind and cold, so that the blood is stagnant, stasis but not through, and it is painful.

More than three years ago, after giving birth, I also had tenosynovitis for a period of time, the most obvious symptom at that time was pain in the thumb joints of both hands, unable to straighten, wrench fingers and wrists moved very painfully, once when eating with chopsticks, due to the unbearable pain, obviously felt the cold rush to the whole arm, I mainly chose to moxibustion in the sore area. It took several months for tenosynovitis to heal, and the picture below shows the scar left after moxibustion.

Under normal circumstances, many people are unacceptable to this method, on the one hand, it will leave scars, on the other hand, wheat moxibustion is to directly rub moxa into wheat grains, put it on the affected area and ignite it directly, this method is more painful. The average person can't stand it.

After inquiry, the symptoms of the group friends involved a wide range, not only tenosynovitis, but also confinement disease, and a large lump in the calf.

Traditional Chinese medicine** should follow the principles of blood circulation and blood stasis, swelling and pain relief, not only to drive away the external evils caused by cold and dampness, but also to dredge the meridians and reconcile qi and blood, so as to make the flow of qi and blood smooth and improve local circulation.

According to the situation of this group friend, purulent moxibustion and wheat moxibustion are not the best choice, and the method of "scraping + moxibustion + hot compress" is used to treat the three together.

In addition, you must pay attention to keeping your arms warm, wear long sleeves and gloves as much as possible.