It is generally recommended not to believe in tendinitis “external prescription”, patients need to be timely and professional general treatment, drug treatment or surgical treatment.
1. General treatment: patients with tenosynovitis need to pay attention to limiting the activities of the lesion in daily life, and can regularly perform professional massage and ice or hot compresses.
2. Medication: Patients with tenosynovitis can also choose medication. For example, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, the representative drugs are ibuprofen, etc.; you can also use local anesthetic and hormone closure therapy, the main method is to inject local anesthetic such as procaine in the lesion site, and then in the tendon sheath injection of glucocorticosteroids such as hydrocortisone. Patients need to follow the doctor’s instructions for medication.
3. Surgical treatment: If the non-surgical treatment has no obvious effect or the symptoms are serious, the patient can undergo surgical treatment, and the commonly used surgical program is tenotomy and decompression surgery.
Tenosynovitis patients should not blindly superstitious so-called external secret prescription unauthorized treatment at home, this will delay the treatment time to make the condition worse, patients need to go to the hospital in time for standardized treatment.