Soft tissue swelling that doesn’t go away for months is usually unusual and can be caused by excessive activity, a combination of other injuries, and vascular disease. Treatment mainly includes physical therapy, medication and surgery.
1. Excessive activity: excessive activity before the patient’s soft tissue injury has not fully recovered may cause the swelling to remain for a long time. Patients need to reduce the amount of exercise, elevate the affected limbs, and apply hot compresses, massage and physical therapy to reduce swelling.
2. Other injuries: soft tissue injuries, ligament tears, fractures and other conditions may also lead to a long time does not subside. Mild patients can take oral diosmin tablets, horse chestnut seed extract and other drugs to reduce swelling; patients with more serious injuries may also need surgical treatment, such as ligament repair or reconstruction, old fracture incision and internal fixation.
3. Vascular disease: if the swelling of the lower limbs, itself combined with vascular disease of the lower limbs may also appear the above symptoms, patients with varicose veins of the lower limbs need to wear compression stockings, at the same time can be static drip mannitol and other drugs to reduce the swelling; thrombosis patients need to use low molecular heparin, warfarin and other drugs to anticoagulate, but also can be surgical removal of the thrombus.
The same disease, the patient’s physical condition is different, different stages of the disease, the treatment method is different, should be standardized under the guidance of the doctor. All of the above medications should be used under the guidance of a doctor to avoid self-medication.