The four seasons of health care in summer for bone disease

  Summer always comes in such a hurry, and this year’s summer is even more surging, as if waking up overnight, the whole city is surrounded by the passionate embrace of summer. The summer heat, many friends, especially the more full-figured friends cry out, too hot! However, Chinese orthopedic surgeons know that the heat is good for patients with orthopedic diseases, but it is good for the treatment of bone disease.  As we all know, the symptoms of patients with bone disease and the weather have a lot to do with each other. Hot weather in the summer, blood circulation accelerates, joint ligament muscle stretching, nerve recovery becomes active, neck soreness, stiffness, pain and other symptoms tend to ease or even disappear, many patients will correspondingly feel the symptoms reduce disappearance, often neglected health care and treatment. But such patients wait until the weather turns cool, often relapse, and even the condition is more serious than before.  Chinese medicine believes that most orthopedic diseases are caused by the attack of wind, cold and dampness, or by the accumulation of strain, strain of tendons and bones, and stagnation of qi and blood. Therefore, according to Chinese medicine, summer is the best time to treat neck, shoulder, back and leg pain and osteoarthritis. High temperatures speed up blood circulation, which helps to take away local “garbage” and eliminate edema and inflammation. The joints, ligaments and muscles become stretched, which is conducive to the retraction of the nucleus pulposus and the repair of articular cartilage damage; nerve recovery becomes active, which is conducive to the elimination of pain and numbness. All these factors can make the treatment achieve twice the effect with half the effort. Therefore, we recommend that patients with cervical and lumbar spine and joint diseases should be treated “while the heat is on”.  Winter and summer treatment is an important feature of traditional Chinese medicine, and its clinical application has a history of more than 3,000 years, dating back to the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine. Chinese medicine believes that winter is yin, summer is yang, summer is the season of yang and yin decline, but also the body’s yang energy, this time to take advantage of the characteristics of summer yang, so the body’s yang energy in the summer with the trend of rising more and more prosperous, the body’s condensation of cold gas easy to solve the state, the use of deficiency to help Yang or warm the cold drugs, the unity of heaven and man, the easiest way to destroy the winter disease of evil in a dormant state, which is also the emphasis of Chinese medicine This is also the reason why Chinese medicine emphasizes “nourishing Yang in spring and summer, and nourishing Yin in autumn and winter”.  Neck, shoulder, back and leg pain, osteoarthritis and other diseases belong to the category of “bone paralysis” in Chinese medicine, “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” “Su Wen – Paralysis” said: “wind, cold and damp three gas mixed to, combined for paralysis”, “the so-called paralysis, each to its time heavy feeling in the wind The so-called “paralysis, each at its own time heavy feeling in the wind, cold and damp also”. The book “Jing Yue Quan Shu” also says: “Paralysis is also closed by the evil of qi and blood”, “not pass and pain”. The weakness of the body, the lack of yang energy and the lack of coupling are the internal factors of the disease. Therefore, strengthening and improving the body, protecting the vital energy, eliminating and preventing the attack of external evil is the key to the prevention and treatment of this disease.  Summer is the best season for treating osteoarthritis. The hot weather in summer makes the human coup open, so treatment of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee in this season can better regulate the function of the internal organs of the body, move the qi and blood, improve the physique, remove wind, cold, damp and heat, and achieve the purpose of treatment.  Winter disease summer treatment emphasizes both internal and external treatment. The internal treatment method is mainly based on oral Chinese medicine. The prescription of Chinese medicine emphasizes that it varies from person to person, from place to place, and from time to time. Oral Chinese medicine can regulate the body’s constitution from the inside out, so that the inner foundation can be consolidated. Compared with the internal treatment method, the external treatment method of TCM is more simple, practical and easy to operate. Fumigation, compresses and other external treatments are particularly effective in the three volt days, because at this time the skin coup is open, the pores are stretched, the drug is easy to penetrate the skin into the acupuncture points meridians, through the meridians qi and blood directly to the disease.  Because of the rising temperature, many friends home or workplace have begun to use air conditioning. Patients with orthopedic diseases should pay attention to avoid direct blowing of the affected part of the air conditioner as much as possible to avoid aggravating the disease, and pay attention to keeping warm, such as putting on an outer coat when the air conditioning temperature is low.  In summer, the symptoms of bone disease will be reduced or disappear due to the higher temperature. When the seasons change, the symptoms of bone disease will appear again or even worsen. Therefore, patients should not miss the time to treat bone disease in summer.