Treatment of meniscus with ice or hot packs

If the patient occurs meniscus fresh injury, within 48 hours of the injury should be given local ice treatment, can be external ice, 3-4 times a day, each ice time 1-3 minutes, through the treatment of ice can reduce the temperature of the knee joint area, can promote the local damage of vascular spasm contraction, can reduce local swelling, can relieve pain. If the injury is more than 48 hours later, it is necessary to take the hot compress treatment, you can use the towel hot compress, orthopedic wash medicine fumigation, or with acupuncture, moxibustion, external application of blood circulation and pain relief cream and other drugs, but also can be used to give oral medication to cooperate with the treatment, you can take oral chondroitin, glucosamine sulfate and other drugs.