How to determine if a baby has a sprained neck?

Since babies have very poor self-care ability, they need careful care from their parents. Only in this way can they grow up healthily. However, in the process of growing up, babies will inevitably encounter some accidents, such as neck sprains, etc. Because the baby's bone function has not yet fully developed, it is easy to get injured, but some parents often don't know how to judge. So how to judge whether the baby's neck is sprained?

First, how do you tell if a baby's neck is sprained? Gently touch the part of the neck where it is twisted. If the baby cries more obviously, it means the neck is severely sprained. If the crying is not very obvious, it means it is not serious. Suggestions:

In serious cases, you should go to the hospital for medical treatment in time. If it is not serious as mentioned above, be careful to avoid spraining it again. It will heal naturally in two days, so don't worry.

Second, if your neck is not twisted very badly, you can gently massage it with your hands to improve blood circulation in the neck and relieve neck pain symptoms. Massage can be divided into massage by others and self-massage. The method for massaging by others is as follows: use your thumb to push on the neck from top to bottom several times to straighten the muscles. Use your thumbs to rub the tender points on your neck several times. To dissipate muscle knots. Press the painful point with one hand and support the top of the head with the other hand to do flexion, extension and rotation of the neck. The range of motion can be gradually increased to improve the mobility of the neck. The self-massage method for sprains is: use multiple fingers (index, middle, ring and little fingers) to massage the neck twenty to thirty times. Pinch the shoulder muscles twenty to thirty times. Slowly perform lateral flexion and rotation of the neck twenty to thirty times. Perform the above techniques once in the morning and once in the evening. The above techniques are also applicable to neck sprains.

How to judge whether a baby has sprained his neck? If the neck is sprained, one obvious sign is that the baby will cry when moving because of the pain caused by the sprained neck. If you want to make sure that your cervical spine is not injured, you need to take an X-ray. When holding a baby, one hand should support the waist and hips, and the other hand should support the upper back and the occipital area, rather than letting the neck bear the force alone. The head hanging in the air is only likely to cause injury when the baby moves up and down or left and right with a large amplitude. Simply holding or putting down the baby gently will not affect the baby's healthy development.

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