How does traditional Chinese medicine bone setting treat bone injuries
How does traditional Chinese medicine bone setting treat bone injuries
Bone-setting is the crystallization of Chinese working people, with a history of more than 3,000 years. The "broken ulcer" recorded in "Zhou Li" mainly refers to the treatment of fractures caused by servants, falls, falls, and blows. TCM bone-setting is a set of treatment methods with unique theoretical system and complete treatment principles formed after long-term practice. The "small splint fixation" in osteosynthesis was pioneered in China, and has been gradually imitated by other countries.
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What is bone setting
Bone-setting is the name of a specialty of traditional Chinese medicine, a specialty for the diagnosis and treatment of injuries. The main object refers to bone, joint or soft tissue injury caused by external force, and also includes internal organ injury caused by similar reasons.
In the medical system established by the Yuan Dynasty government, there was a "bone-setting and gold arrowhead department". Wei Yilin, a physician of the Yuan Dynasty specializing in bone-setting, set up "Bone-setting and Golden Arrowheads" in Volume 18 of "World Medicine and Effective Prescriptions" to discuss bone and joint injuries and the causes and symptoms of diseases caused by golden blades. rule. It is pointed out in "Golden Mirror of Medicine: The Essentials of Bone-Setting Heart Method": "The modern orthopaedic department is the evidence of ancient bruises and injuries."
treatment
First of all, the patient needs to take medicine to adjust the body function to the best state, and then perform bone setting. Mainly through pulling and stretching, reduction, alignment, massage and other manipulations to help patients reduce fractures, and then use a small splint for fixation. Bone-setting can not only effectively help patients return the broken bones to the right position, but also improve the synovial dislocation of patients, and effectively treat frozen shoulder, cervical spondylosis and other diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine bone setting does not require surgery during the treatment process, causing less pain to the patient, which can effectively prevent infection and promote the clinical recovery of the patient.
1. To touch. It mainly refers to the doctor using his fingers to touch the patient's fracture site, and then slowly feel the fractured part. Although the use of X-rays can illuminate the structure of the patient's bones, the X-rays are only a plan view. Through touch, the doctor can clearly perceive the shape of the patient's bones, and then better help the patient's treatment.
2. Traction. Rehabilitation therapists hold the distal and proximal ends of the patient's bone, and pull the patient's fractured part according to the correct growth position of the bone, slowly correct the fracture position, and help the patient return to normal limb length.
3. Rotate. Part of the fracture site will not be easily changed, possibly because the distal end of the fracture has lost continuous mobility, so external rotation, abduction, internal rotation, etc. are needed to help the patient rotate and move the fracture site.
4. Press. The rehabilitation therapist presses the distal end of the patient's fracture site with one hand and the proximal end of the patient's fracture site with the other hand, and presses repeatedly to help the patient's fracture site return to normal.
Advantages of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Treating Fractures
The four basic measures of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of fractures are restoration, immobilization, functional exercise and internal and external medication. After reducing the patient's bones by professional manipulation, using small splints for fixation and oral administration of traditional Chinese medicine can effectively act on the patient's bones and soft tissues, and can also effectively take into account the patient's reduction, fixation and functional exercise, promote fracture healing and reduce the incidence of complications in patients. risk.
1. Pay equal attention to the part and the whole.
The main reason for fractures in patients is caused by external forces, but after fractures, there will be overall changes in the patient's body. Chinese medicine focuses on the relationship between the part and the whole. Local injuries need to pay equal attention to both parts and the whole, and effectively use bandaging, immobilization, massage, passive activities, automatic movements and other means to treat patients, promote rapid recovery of patients, and shorten the course of rehabilitation.
2. Unification of fixation and movement.
Traditional Chinese medicine bone-setting fixes the patient's bones on the basis of exercise, which is a type of active fixation. No matter what kind of fixation method is adopted after the fracture, the movement of the fractured part can only be reduced to a minimum, but the fracture position of the patient cannot be moved at all. When the patient's limb is moving, the external fixation will move with the patient's limb, most of the shear force is absorbed by the joint activity, and the burden on the fracture is greatly reduced.
3. At the same time, the restoration, fixation and restoration are carried out in parallel.
Traditional Chinese medicine bone-setting not only has the advantages of fast healing and pain relief, but also the patient's limb function recovery is very good, and muscle adhesion and joint stiffness are rarely seen.
4. Internal medicine.
Another feature of TCM bone-setting is the oral administration of TCM. Oral administration of drugs can effectively stimulate the growth of bone cells in patients. After fracture, patients will experience swelling and pain, which will lead to the obstruction of qi and blood, and the circulation disorder. Therefore, in the early stage of treatment, it is necessary to focus on qi, promote the circulation of qi and blood, increase metabolism, and promote the early healing of fractures.
Text/Zhang Hui Zhang Qianqian Tengzhou Traumatology Hospital
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