Ligament damage over 2 days and fracture over 3 weeks before seeking medical attention is less effective. With the onset of rain and snow, the roads become slippery again and such conditions tend to increase the chances of falls. For older people, a fall can easily cause a fracture, while younger people are prone to strain ligaments. “For fractures people tend to pay a lot of attention, for ligament strains many people just make do and forget about it.” The experts at the central hospital said, “a hundred days to hurt the bones,” for ligament injuries should also pay equal attention. If the ligament injury, it is best to see a doctor within 2 days “Young people have good bone quality, inadvertent falls cause relatively few fractures, more common is the sprain of joints and ligaments.” Guo Shuya, director of the Department of Bone, Joint and Sports Medicine at Jinan Central Hospital, introduced that strains and tears of wrist, knee and ankle ligaments are relatively common among young people, but many do not seek medical attention in time, often causing unrecoverable damage and leaving sequelae. ”For example, if you sprain your ankle, people may treat themselves at home, and some people are well, but some are well? Not well.” Guo Shua said, ligament damage is serious, recovery is not good easily lead to the loss of some functions, “more common is that the ankle from time to time pain, encounter road uneven or activity, accidentally twisted again. This is residual joint instability.” ”At this point even with surgery, it’s hard to recover to the desired degree.” Guo Shua says that ligament injuries are seen within 2 days and fractures within 3 weeks, and if they are seen beyond that time, the effectiveness of treatment is easily compromised. And in orthopedics, injuries that are more than 3 weeks old are considered old. If the ligaments are made to function as before, only a knee brace can be added, or muscle strength can be exercised to compensate for some of it, “fundamentally, the function has been partially lost.” ”What’s the concept of the old saying ‘a hundred days for a ligament injury’? That is, ligament injuries and bone injuries are the same status, it is as long as the recovery period is also very difficult to recover, it is easy to residual sequelae.” Guo Shua emphasized that “it is important to pay attention to ligament injuries.” Ligament injury serious also need to play a cast, surgery “people do not pay attention to the tendon injury. Take a film, find the bone is fine, go home. If you say that you then have to do further to determine, check for ligament injuries, or to do surgery, many people do not accept.” Guo Shua said. ”In just twisted to the time, you can do your own first aid treatment, there are four principles at this time.” Guo Shuya said the first is to elevate the affected limb, “If it is the forearm, then we have to hang it, if it is a lower limb injury is to lie down, put the leg pad high, above the heart, to facilitate blood return.” In addition, pressure bandages to reduce bleeding, while ice can be applied, the most important thing is to “brake”, do not move to avoid further injury. If the ligament is torn and still moving, the ligament can grow loosely, but it is easy to re-injure. ”What you often encounter in ligament injuries is swelling, pain, and if it’s severe you can hear the sound of a rupture.” He said that the ligament is damaged to what extent, even experienced doctors have to judge by the location of the limb at the time of injury, check the performance of the body and many other circumstances, the ordinary people are difficult to judge for themselves. If it is more serious, ligament injuries also need to play a cast, “ligament injuries at least 3 weeks cast, fractures at least 4 weeks, long, also need to play 6 weeks cast. Wrist, hip and lumbar spine are the common parts of fractures in the elderly “The elderly generally have osteoporosis, and the parts that are easily injured when they fall inadvertently are mainly the wrist, hip and lumbar spine.” Guo Shuya, director of the Department of Bone, Joint and Sports Medicine at Jinan Central Hospital, introduced. When the elderly fall, they may habitually use their hands to support the ground, which will easily cause injuries to the bones of the wrist, the most common is the “distal radius fracture”, “the main performance is swelling, pain, and even deformation of serious.” The seemingly straight arm, a bend, known as “knife and fork-like” deformity. ”The more serious is the hip fracture, and at the same time, if you are sitting on your buttocks, it is easy to cause compression fractures of the lumbar spine.” Guo Shuya said a good way to prevent this is to try not to go out when it’s raining or snowing in slippery weather. How do you get first aid if you break a bone in a fall? Guo Shuya says that for hip and lumbar spine fractures, it is important to reduce incorrect lifting. Guo Shuya explains that a fracture that is otherwise very light and encounters incorrect lifting will likely cause the injury to worsen. One should call the emergency number in time for professional treatment. As for wrist fractures, a temporary fixation device can be made of cardboard to hold the injured part and seek medical attention in time.