@Come to the wrist health, pay attention!

With the development of the Internet, playing mobile phones and computers has become the norm of people. After playing the game happily, Xiao Zhang suddenly found that a pea -like protrusion appeared on the back of the hand, touched hard, elastic, and painful.

"Doctor, how do you grow a bag in your hand! I'm so young, shouldn't I get a tumor?"

The doctor touched it with his hands: "Lady, always don't leave your hand! Go to do a color Doppler ultrasound and see if it is a tendon sheath cyst."

So what is tendon sheath cyst?

Tendon sheath cyst is a soft tissue damage disease. It occurs near the joints or tendon sheaths of the wrist, hands and feet. A benign cystic mass containing jelly -like mucus. The cysts are more common in single room.

Some of the occupations that have long -term repeated joint activities in life are easy to cause this disease. It may be due to the degeneration of neighboring tissue or trauma, and the slide enters the local area, wraps and forms a local effusion.

What are the clinical manifestations of tendon sheath?

Young adults have multiple occurrences, and the incidence of women can be three times the incidence of men. Always appear half -ball lumps on the back side of the wrist, the side of the palm, or the feet, etc., the onset of the onset is slow, generally not exceeding 2cm, the appearance is smooth and full, the surface skin can be pushed, no adhesion, toughness, elastic, can be sac, there may be sacs. Sexy, uncomfortable discomfort, sometimes mild tenderness.

A few can subscribe by itself, but the recurrence rate is high. However, some people who occur in the wrist tunnel or small fish at the palm can compress the middle nerve or ulnar nerve, which is accompanied by local soreness or pain, which causes certain dysfunction to patients in severe cases.

How should I treat it after diagnosis?

① The superficial cysts can be squeezed with external forces or pierced the sac wall with a needle. After it is absorbed by itself, it can be cured and easy to relapse.

② Poster with a thick needle under the tie, try to draw the glue-like fluid as much as possible, inject the medicine, press and bandage, and heal it for 2-3 times in a row, but often relapse.

③ Surgical treatment for recurrence patients. The surgery will be completely removed with all tissues such as tendon sheath and tendon membrane around the surrounding parts. Rarely recurrence after surgery.

How to prevent and regulate?

① Avoid high -intensity work on the wrist, you can rest properly after a certain period of time to avoid aggravating symptoms.

② Pay attention to the joints of the wrist to keep warm and promote local blood circulation.

③ Usually we can bring wrist protection to reduce symptoms.

④ After work, you can massage the joint pain and discomfort. You can also massage yourself in a timely manner. You can do some hand exercise to relieve pain, such as rotating your wrist.

Reporter Bie Jing, Chengdu Second People's Hospital

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