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2011-02-23

Varicose veins

Young white-collar workers who are not sitting at the computer every day eight hours enough? Keep the body in addition to the movement of fingers and eyes, other parts are in for a long time stationary state? This is easy when your legs due to prolonged lack of activity, blood circulation disorders, there may even be varicose veins, varicose veins in the skin surface not only unsightly bulge tortuous shape of the blood vessels, may also have itching, swelling, pain etc., do not just affect the appearance of it as a disease, varicose veins or other systems may cause systemic disease, seriously affecting the quality of life.
Varicose veins with a genetic predisposition, characteristics, said mothers and fathers or grandfather of the generation if varicose veins, varicose veins may occur if a child; and clinical work found that the incidence of varicose veins are generally older, young, serious degree and more often have a genetic predisposition. Therefore, a genetic tendency to varicose veins in patients with early onset general, younger, heavier and easier to the severity of recurrence. Treatment of such patients to promote early treatment, early treatment is better.
The treatment of varicose veins
Varices are the following: 1, conservative treatment, including: drugs, elastic stockings, to avoid static station and so on. 2, surgical treatment, including: conventional surgical treatment, freezing, laser, microwave, radio frequency, inverted stripping, peeling and so on. Make a choice according to specific conditions. If the injection treatment, the recurrence rate is higher.
Varicose veins without surgery the serious consequences that may arise
Varices in patients with either congenital or acquired factors, factors that are mainly venous valve insufficiency or off lax, so the role of gravity causes blood flow to the lower extremities, which makes the lower extremity venous pressure increased. We can actually see the veins return the blood to the superficial veins summary, as these are no more muscle superficial veins parcel will be highlighted, so that we can see the formation of varicose veins.
Long varicose veins, due to the permeability of blood vessels, blood can leak into the surrounding organizations, the local skin malnutrition, the patient will show at this time for the leg soreness and itching, there will be further down the development of leg swelling, or ulceration.
If varicose veins are not active treatment may be secondary to lower limb movement disorder, which may affect the cardiovascular system in recent and other system functions, resulting in a decline in quality of life of patients, and seriously affect health.
Stockings for varicose veins can only play a role in relieving symptoms
Stockings major role is to alleviate symptoms, but not the method of treatment of varicose veins. Use of outside pressures and reduce the blood return and reduce symptoms of leg soreness and delay the development of varicose vein disease, but it must not stop the development process, so it is not a means of treatment of varicose veins.
The clinical use of medical elastic stockings is a standard distinction, divided into 2, 3, 4, etc., provided by the pressure is not the same. Should be based on different levels of disease under the guidance of a doctor the types of stockings. At present, elastic stockings on the market of varying quality, but patients should be under the guidance of specialists in scientific use, but do not arbitrarily choose their own.

2011-02-13

Easy to get "mobile phone elbow" for long time phone call

Romantic Valentine's Day has arrived, the two lovers separated by sweet if you can not meet in a city, if it does choose to hold telephone muttered romantic ways ah? If you and your long distance lover to build a relationship to rely on mobile phones, then get in a warm reminder that you should be careful "mobile phone elbow" Oh!
Especially in the piano, surgery, sculpture, painting, sewing and other professionals who work, take care to burn your finger protection phone as flexible, "killer." Because for a long time may lead to a cell phone the occurrence of cubital tunnel syndrome, thereby affecting the flexibility of the fingers, or even cause permanent damage to the arm nerves.
What is "cell phone elbow"?
Cubital tunnel syndrome, in recent years been known as "mobile phone elbow", which mobile phones in people's daily lives frequently used are inseparable. Why prolonged use of cell phone elbow syndrome who get into it easily? From the physiological point of view of anatomy is not difficult to understand, because when people use mobile phones and receive calls when the degree of curving elbow more than 90 degrees are often long time position to maintain the call made within the ulnar nerve compression at the elbow or the draft, will lead to the ring finger and small finger numbness into a "claw hand", or the thumb is not on the palm, thumb and index finger on that weakness, the fingers close together and so can not be separated and phenomenon.
Similarly, the arm looked on during sleep were also made more than 90 degrees elbow degree of distortion, if the sleeping position to keep up to several hours, then will lead to "mobile phone elbow" occurred.
Avoid "cell phone elbow" primary reliance on prevention
For business people, or like the burning phone users, the mobile phone increasingly becoming the product can not be replaced in life, then how can both enjoy the convenience of life mobile phones can bring effective prevention to become "mobile phone elbow," the victim of it? should note the following four main areas -
1, try to use the telephone less than 1 hour each time;
Whether mobile or landline, as long as those who need hand-held microphone to your ear, call the best control in 1 hour;
2, for the work process frequently answers the phone, it is best to wear a wired headset or Bluetooth headset;
3, according to their posture and height adjustment of the height of table and keyboard, try to keep your elbows are bent less than 90 degrees;
4, when office workers lunch break looked on the arm do not sleep at night to sleep who have looked on the arm but also to change this habit, so that arms do not bend more than 90 degrees.
Get involved in "cell phone elbow" What treatment?
Many people believe that cell phones cause a long time "mobile phone elbow" was a bit alarmist, but have to say is, "mobile phone elbow," the impact on people's quality of life can not be ignored, patients may have mild tingling fingers, fingers and weak, and moderate to severe patients may have different levels of intrinsic hand muscle atrophy and weakness, so to have to make for treatment.
For mild "mobile phone elbow" could be considered in patients with non-surgical treatment options currently include such conservative treatment ① brake elbow: elbow flexion restriction splint night with <60 °, 6 months may have symptoms; ② partial closure injection; ③ oral analgesics.
For conservative treatment ineffective, and seriously affect the quality of life, one should consider a simple treatment of cubital tunnel decompression: ① resection of the medial epicondyle; ② front ulnar nerve surgery; ③ pre-resection and ulnar nerve microsurgery neurolysis.