How to quickly reduce the swelling of traumatic foot

When swelling of the foot occurs after a traumatic injury, generally speaking, depending on the severity of the foot injury, different methods can be taken to quickly reduce the swelling. First, if the patient’s trauma is more serious and directly causes fracture or ligament strain in the foot, the patient will have obvious limitation of movement and severe swelling and pain in the foot. The only way to quickly eliminate the symptoms of foot swelling is to perform surgery as soon as possible for internal fixation of the fracture and removal of local fluid and blood accumulation. Second, if the patient’s trauma causes minor local damage to the foot to move freely, accompanied only by mild local pain, you can apply ice packs locally to reduce the extravasation of water in the capillaries, and later can be replaced by hot towels wet compresses. Patients can take oral Panax ginseng tablets and diclofenac sodium capsules to improve local blood circulation and relieve the symptoms of swelling and pain. Generally, the swelling of the foot can be quickly eliminated after 72 hours.