It is easy to injure wrists and hip bones due to slipping. Pay attention to hot and cold compresses.

　　The cold winter has arrived in the vast northern region. Snowflakes are flying, thousands of miles of ice cover, and the scenery is magnificent. However, people's travel has also been affected to a certain extent. It is very easy to slip and fall when traveling in ice and snow. How to deal with injuries after falling?

　　Older people are more likely to fracture after falling. As people get older, their body's balance ability and muscle strength deteriorate, and they are more likely to fall while walking. For this group of people, be sure to wear shoes with non-slip soles on snowy days, and try to avoid icy or slippery roads when walking. You need to be particularly careful.

　　After a fall, there are two parts of the human body that are most susceptible to fractures: one is the wrist. Everyone has an instinctive protection. When they fall forward, they subconsciously use their hands to support the ground. When the wrist touches the ground, our own weight, plus acceleration, are all supported on the wrist. It may be okay for a young man, but it may cause fractures for an old man.

　　The other is our hip joint and hip bone. The femoral neck is also particularly prone to fractures after the elderly fall. Therefore, if there is pain in these two places after a fall, we must pay special attention. In addition, the elderly have a characteristic that they are not so sensitive to pain. For example, after an elderly person falls and fractures his hip joint, it may hurt when walking or bearing weight, but the fracture of the wrist does not affect walking. Therefore, after the elderly person falls, they feel a little swollen and painful, thinking that this is an ordinary fall that causes soft tissue damage. However, you must be careful in this case, because the fracture of the wrist may not be too painful. If you ignore it and do not go to the hospital in time, it means that the fracture is not fixed and the wrist is still moving. The fracture will continue to shift and dislocate, which will eventually lead to the bones of the wrist joint being deformed and unable to grow, causing complications such as malunion or non-union.

　　It is important for patients who feel pain after a fall to go to the hospital for medical treatment in time: If it is just a simple and very light soft tissue injury, it is generally characterized by getting lighter and lighter. The pain is the most on the day of the fall. It gets lighter and lighter, and the pain disappears in one or two weeks. But if it is a fracture, especially a dislocated fracture, it may still be swollen and painful for two or three weeks. At this time, you must go to the hospital and have a doctor check it out. Some patients who fall after a fall and find out that it is not a fracture think that everything is fine. In fact, some important ligament injuries still need to be cast or immobilized with casts or limbs because ligaments are very important. Some ligaments have poor blood circulation and have not healed and have not been properly treated, so they will not grow. Just like some athletes who have ligament injuries may still suffer from pain for many years after retirement. The timeliness of fracture treatment is also very important. Generally, it will be treated as an acute fracture within three weeks. Treatment can lead to better recovery. If it is delayed to one month or two months, it is in the sub-acute phase. The treatment in the sub-acute phase is not as effective as the treatment in the acute phase.

　　Many people think that hot compresses are needed to heal an injury after a fall. In fact, this is a misunderstanding and is a matter of time. As far as falls are concerned, hot compresses cannot be applied in the early stage after a fall, especially in the first 24 to 48 hours. We need a response of elevation and cold compresses to reduce local trauma. If heat is applied during this period, the traumatic reaction may be more severe, making our injuries more and more serious. After the early cold compress, hot compress can be used after the acute stage and as the swelling slowly recovers and subsides.

　　Be careful when traveling. If you feel you can't handle it after a fall, you must go to the hospital promptly.