Muscle atrophy after humeral fracture

When it comes to muscle atrophy, many people are afraid of it. This disease is extremely harmful to the body. After suffering from muscle atrophy, patients must actively cooperate with treatment and strengthen exercise every day, which is very helpful for muscle function recovery. So what should we do about muscle atrophy after humeral fracture? There are also many good ways to care for muscle atrophy caused by fractures. The following is a detailed introduction.

Care methods

1. Maintain an optimistic and happy mood. Intense, long-term or repeated mental stress, anxiety, irritability, pessimism and other emotional changes can cause an imbalance in the excitation and inhibition processes of the cerebral cortex, aggravate muscle twitching, and cause muscle atrophy in the elderly.

2. Rationally adjust the diet structure. Elderly patients with muscular atrophy need high-protein, high-energy dietary supplements to provide the substances necessary for the reconstruction of nerve cells and skeletal muscle cells in order to enhance muscle strength and grow muscle. They should adopt high-protein foods rich in vitamins, phospholipids and trace elements in the early stage, and actively cooperate with dietary restrictions, such as yam, coix seed, lotus seed heart, tangerine peel, pseudoginseng, lily, etc., avoid spicy foods, and quit smoking and drinking. For patients in the middle and late stages, a high-protein, high-nutrition, energy-rich semi-liquid and liquid diet is the main diet, and small and frequent meals are adopted to maintain the patient's nutrition and water and electrolyte balance.

3. Combine work and rest. Avoid forced sexual exercise, because forced sexual exercise will cause skeletal muscle fatigue, which is not conducive to the recovery of skeletal muscle function, regeneration and repair of muscle cells.

4. Strictly prevent colds. Elderly patients with muscular atrophy have low immune function or some kind of immune deficiency. Once they catch a cold, their condition will worsen, the course of the disease will be prolonged, and muscle atrophy and twitching will worsen. Especially patients with bulbar palsy are prone to lung infection. If not treated in time, the prognosis will be poor and even the patient's life will be endangered.

5. Prevent gastroenteritis and maintain normal digestive function. Gastroenteritis can lead to dysfunction of intestinal bacteria, especially viral gastroenteritis, which can cause varying degrees of damage to the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord, resulting in increased muscle twitching, decreased muscle strength, and recurrence or aggravation of the disease in elderly patients with muscular atrophy. Maintaining normal digestive function for elderly patients with muscular atrophy is the basis for recovery.