What to do if you are bedridden for a long time with muscle atrophy

After exercise, the muscles will remain relatively strong, the more exercise the more developed, usually do not exercise will also appear muscle atrophy, long-term bedridden muscle atrophy treatment is as follows: 1, after long-term bedridden, gastrointestinal function will decline, nutrition may be affected, so long-term bedridden patients to ensure that the nutrition is sufficient, if you can eat and drink on their own, to ensure that sufficient nutrition, can ensure that the protein, the need for muscle growth. If the patient is unable to eat on his own, he may be given nutritional fluids through a gastric tube or a nutritional tube. Depending on how much nutrition the patient can actually tolerate, give enough nutrient solution to make sure that you can get the basic calories. In the case of nutritional calories are enough to ensure that the patient’s needs; 2, in the case of nutritional adequacy, but also to do rehabilitation exercises, the patient because of bedridden immobilization, the muscle itself will slowly atrophy. To strengthen the passive exercise, if you can take the initiative to exercise, try to encourage yourself to take the initiative to exercise. If the patient is a cerebrovascular patient, hemiplegic patient, may have to passive exercise, you can ask the rehabilitation doctor or therapist, or even acupuncture, massage together, to promote muscle movement, reduce muscle atrophy; 3, the emergence of muscle atrophy should be considered to investigate the special diseases, such as motor neuron disease, neurological disorders, which can also lead to muscle atrophy. Only after finding the primary cause and treating for the primary disease, the patient may not develop muscle atrophy.