I don’t know if you have ever encountered the following situation?
When you sneeze or stretch, you suddenly feel a sharp pain in your ribs on the chest side, you can’t move your body much, you can’t breathe and inhale, you can’t touch the painful spot with your hands, and you can’t even turn over in bed ……
What is the reason for this?
In fact, this is what we often call a “bout of gas”. The bronchial gas in the traditional medicine of injury is called the chest and chest burst injury. It is a disease caused by trauma to the chest qi stagnation, with chest tightness and pain, chest tightness as the main symptoms. According to Chinese medicine, this disease is mainly caused by trauma, which leads to damage of the thoracic veins and channels, stagnation of qi and blood stasis, resulting in swelling and pain; or failure to treat the injury, loss of harmony between qi and blood, and stagnation of blood stasis. Qi injury – pain, physical injury – swelling, so the pain is indefinite, pulling pain.
From the perspective of modern medicine, this disease is mainly caused by trauma resulting in spasm of the intrinsic muscles of the chest wall, laceration or misalignment of the rib and vertebral joints and synovial inlay.
The main manifestation is pain in one or both sides of the thoracic plate, which is aggravated by deep inspiration and coughing. In severe cases, the pain is so severe that the crest and back cannot be touched and the painful area is protected, and the continuous pain prevents turning over and affects sleep.
As a more common condition, what if the pain is unbearable due to a sudden bout of gas, but it is not convenient to come to the hospital? Here are a few ways to teach you to relieve the symptoms: 1, rub Tanzhong Tanzhong point, located in the front of the body, the midpoint of the line between the two breasts. With the right hand of the big fish in the Tanzhong point for up and down, fast, back and forth rubbing, to the heat. Once for 5-7 minutes, twice a day.
2, point Dabao Dabao point, located in the side of the chest, axillary line, when the 6th rib space. Use your fingertips to press on the dabao point for 3-5 minutes, to soreness and swelling.
3, rub the two wounds yourself or a family member in along the intercostal space and the back of the bladder meridian for a brisk rubbing, in order to penetrate the heat is appropriate.
4, self-massage Use the root of the palm of your hand to gently rub in and around the affected area for 5-7 minutes to relieve muscle spasm.
Warm tips: 1, if the symptoms can not be relieved, please take oral painkillers to relieve the pain, and seek medical attention in time to avoid the occurrence of small joint dislocation, which requires a doctor’s operation to reset and relieve the pain.
2. For serious symptoms, X-ray imaging is recommended to exclude fractures and pneumothorax to avoid delaying the condition.