Treatment of shoulder

Failure to load, causing pain in the shoulder. This is the simplest and one of the most effective recommendations in such pain. Many patients carry it on their own initiative, but the doctor also may recommend you a time limit loads. Of course, do not raise their hands for a few days or weeks is impossible, and it is not necessary - it can not lead to an improvement, on the contrary, to the aggravation of the symptoms. As a rule, at first, until the pain is particularly severe, should not lift his hands above his head, and avoid lifting heavy objects (here the weight limit must be set individually, depending on the cause of pain and the level of physical fitness person).

When damaged acromioclavicular joint, in addition to the limit loads, the patient may be advised to wear a bandage for seven to ten days after the injury.

Ice packs

If the pain in the shoulder when lifting arms appeared after a workout, try to attach to the shoulder wrap with ice and keep it from ten minutes to half an hour. Use a bag with crushed ice or frozen vegetables wrapped in a thick cloth. Such compresses well relieve the pain and inflammation after minor injuries, serious injuries but they are ineffective.

OTC analgesics

If slight or moderate pain in the shoulder occurs not only when a show of hands, but also appears in other movements and / or bothers you at night, you can take paracetamol. Although it is a fairly safe drug, be sure to read the instructions on the package and do not exceed the recommended dose. If paracetamol does not help deal with the pain, increase the dose of no use - you need a more potent drug.

In more severe pain or inflammation of the patient can take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen, diclofenac Diclofenac - relieve inflammation and pain   or naproxen.

Corticosteroids

Drugs of this type contain hormones that can suppress inflammation. Your doctor may prescribe oral corticosteroids for patients with glenohumeral arthritis and some other disorders that cause pain in the shoulder when lifting your hands. They relieve pain in the shoulder for a few weeks; In many cases during that time restored damaged tissue, and the pain goes away. Short-term use of corticosteroids can lead to side effects such as increased appetite and, consequently, weight gain, acne, abrupt and unexplainable mood swings Mood swings in women - bad character or a disease? . If one takes these drugs for three months or more, their side effects may include: muscle weakness, skin thinning and frequent bruising, significant weight gain, glaucoma Glaucoma - a perspective possible blindness , Increased blood pressure, increased risk of infectious diseases. In most cases, these side effects disappear shortly after the end of treatment.

If pills with corticosteroids does not help deal with the pain, your doctor may recommend the patient an injection of drugs in this class. They very effectively relieve pain associated with a "frozen shoulder", tendinitis and bursitis Bursitis - if you have trouble walking As well as help increase the range of motion of the shoulder joint. Side effects such injections may be thinning of the skin and change the natural skin pigmentation.

Hyaluronate injections

This medication is rarely used in the treatment of pain in the shoulder, although a number of studies have shown that it can be quite effective analgesic and apparently is safer than corticosteroids. Perhaps one of its properties will be better understood hyaluronate is used more frequently.

Physical therapy

Your doctor may give the patient, complaining of pain in the shoulder when lifting your hands, referral to a physical therapist. He, in turn, may prescribe a course of massage and / or recommend the implementation of special exercises. Within physical therapy can also be used laser therapy, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation. During laser therapy the doctor stimulates nerve fibers by means of a laser beam, and thus the pain weakened or completely passes. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation method lies in the fact that the nerves affected by weak electric current that is passed through electrodes attached to the skin. Such a procedure not only relieve pain, but also stimulates regeneration of damaged tissues.

Surgical intervention

Surgery may be necessary if other treatments do not help. Type of operation, which will be administered to a patient depends on what caused the pain in the shoulder when lifting your hands.

Causes and types of headaches

Headache can occur for various reasons. Sometimes a random spasm of blood vessels in other cases - a sign of serious illness. In any case, if the headache occurs frequently, it is necessary to find out the cause of this phenomenon, and here without inspection is necessary.

Feeling a headache due to the irritation of sensory nerve receptors. Pain sensitivity have all the tissues of the skull, but especially the artery on the surface of the skull, the aponeurosis (tendon that a cap covers the skull and merges with the scalp), temporal and occipital muscles. Sources headaches may also venous sinuses, part of the dura mater based on the brain and cerebral arteries dura certain cranial nerves.

The character of a headache sometimes to determine its origin. So, throbbing headache often indicative of vascular origin, stinging says affected cranial nerves, pain Expander nature is more often observed in the cerebral venous plethora and edema, feeling of constriction of the head (in the form of a "helmet") characteristic of the neuroses.

Headache may be the first sign of acute and early sign of chronic diseases. Therefore, patients who are concerned about persistent headaches, necessarily need to be surveyed.

Headache Treatment

Throbbing headache of vascular origin is usually associated with high blood pressure and spasm of the arteries of the brain, so when it will best help the drugs that lower blood pressure and spasm of blood vessels, as well as sedatives. Dull headache, which is accompanied by vertigo Dizziness - if the ground is slipping from under his feet More often speaks of the low blood pressure Blood pressure - dangerous if his swing? . In this case, will a strong cup of coffee or tea, headache tablets, which includes caffeine (for example, tsitramon). But before taking such a pill, it is necessary to measure blood pressure, otherwise you can hurt yourself even tsitramon. Any vascular disorders result in insufficient supply of oxygen the brain, so when these headaches shown neuroprotective drugs receive treatment not less than 4-6 weeks. These drugs (piracetam, nootropil and others) contribute to improve the absorption of oxygen by the brain.

Strong throbbing headaches can occur when a sudden sharp expansion of the blood vessels of the brain and stagnation in their blood. Such headaches are called migraine. Very often, migraine I have a migraine. What to do?   one half of a sore head. When a migraine headache can be removed by various simple painkillers such as Pentalgin, Pentalgin in conjunction with a number of other pain medications (eg, nurofenom). Prescribed by a doctor and used other, more specific drugs that remove excessive dilation of blood vessels - ergotamine, dihydroergotamine, sumatriptan. These drugs without a prescription can not be applied, as in other types of headaches, they can cause irreparable harm.

Muscle pain is constricting the head and appears in the neuroses - disorders of the central nervous system functional character. For its removal used sedatives, treatments with physiotherapy, psychotherapy, reflexology Reflexology - a policy of non-drug therapies   (impact in many ways on certain points on the body responsible for the work of an organ), spa treatment.

In some severe diseases of the brain (tumors, abscesses, traumas and their consequences, inflammatory diseases of the brain and its membranes) headache occurs on the background of circulation disorders in the brain fluid - liquor. Because of the obstacles the movement of cerebrospinal fluid may accumulate its overweight in a particular area of ​​the brain, it compresses the individual structures of the brain, causing a headache. Such a headache at home is difficult to remove, the patient must choose the individual treatment in a hospital.

Sometimes headache during stimulation of cranial nerve or ganglion. This irritation can be caused by hypothermia, and various infectious diseases, allergic disorders, blood circulation in the place where the nerve and so on. Treatment of neuralgic headaches effective only after the establishment of the correct diagnosis and eliminate the cause of the disorders of the cranial nerves. Appointed by antiepileptic drugs which inhibit the spread of nerve impulses. Such drugs can be used only on prescription and is very long - at least six months. Applied methods of acupuncture, which help to reduce the speed of pain impulses and increases the analgesic activity of the brain.

With frequent headaches our body is signaling that there is something precarious. Therefore, such a condition requires a thorough examination

Galina Romanenko