If you previously had arthrosis or arthritis, then you are at risk. After previously transferred to these diseases, most often a contracture occurs. It can also appear if you do not have an active lifestyle and do not do much sports. In this case, the brushes weaken and lose mobility. Stroke and improper blood supply can also lead to the development of this unpleasant disease. With such an ailment, the muscles become very tight and the motions become strained.
In order to prevent this disease, use our main tips. They will help to avoid problems with joints and muscles.
- To begin with, remember that all work that can lead to damage to the hands, it is necessary to perform only in gloves. If a man is periodically subjected to heavy loads on the hands, the muscles do not rest and are deformed. This leads to contracture.
- After hard work, do not forget to wash your hands thoroughly and let your muscles rest. Lie down, relax your hands and do one of the following procedures. You can lubricate your hands with a moisturizing and healing cream, make lotions, or fruit and vegetable masks. This will saturate the skin of the hands with oxygen and moderately moisturize it.
- Periodically do the warming up of the hands. This is an important procedure for a person of any age. Even small children are given time at the school to rest their fingers. Timely rest relaxes and greatly increases productivity.
Contracture: treatment by methods of alternative medicine.
And here are the folk methods used to treat the contracture. Baths are the most effective way of treatment.
- Potatoes and zucchini.
Potato and mashed potatoes will help best. Fresh potatoes or zucchini should be washed and ground using a blender. The resulting gruel should be applied to the hands, and the skin will absorb all the useful properties of such puree. Puree can be made from boiled potatoes in the same way, only in this slurry you need to add a little milk. And it will be no less effective than fresh potatoes.
- Banana, apricot, peach.
If the skin begins to age and loses its elasticity and softness, it can not do without mashed potatoes from various fruits. Peach and apricot will help to rejuvenate the skin, by the way, they have become irreplaceable in women's cosmetics for a long time. Do a puree of banana, apricot or peach, and you will notice how much the skin has become soft and pleasant to the touch. Not for nothing since a long time, a very delicate skin is described with the words: "the skin is soft, like a peach." In such a comparison, the skin of young girls or small children usually falls. So be sure, after applying a mask like this, your skin will become as tender as the baby's.
- Kefir.
To treat contracture folk methods you can use lotions of yogurt. Gauze wet in kefir and put on hands. When kefir is absorbed, moisten again. Repeat the procedure several times, and you will notice that the muscles of the hands are relaxed, and the skin is fresh and beautiful. Take care that kefir is not too cold or hot. It will not benefit your hands, but, on the contrary, can even do harm.
Remember, the most important thing in treatment is muscle relaxation. Treat your hands only at the time when you can maximize the muscles rest, and also will not perform any hard work in the first few hours after the lotion.
- Aloe.
Another way of treatment is with aloe juice. Examine the aloe plant and select a juicy fleshy leaf of medium size. One will be enough. Rub the flesh of this plant into the skin of your hands with soft smooth movements. After that, the hands should be at rest for a while, until the juice is completely absorbed. Once the juice has absorbed, wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water in medium temperature water to achieve the best possible therapeutic effect. Use too cold or hot water is not desirable.
- Needles of pine.
The last version of the solution for the baths is a decoction of needles. For broth, take about 100 grams of needles, pour boiling water and let it brew for a while. Wipe the cotton swab with this decoction and put it on the upper part of the hands. The broth will be absorbed into the skin and will have a positive therapeutic effect on the hands.
- Expander.
Expanders also slow and prevent the development of contracture. It takes about 10 times a day. Each time, from ten to twenty compressions of the expander. With the help of such gymnastics, the hands will become much stronger, the blood will circulate properly and the ligaments will return to a good state. And, consequently, your hands will no longer be at risk of contracture.
In this article, the most famous and useful methods of treating contracture with folk remedies were cited.