These methods are effective in treating high muscle tension in babies

Every mother is extremely concerned about the health of her baby, but in recent years, high muscle tone in babies is a very common disease. For parents, they don’t know much about this disease, so they don’t know what to do when facing this disease. So here we will introduce you to the treatment of high muscle tone in babies!

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that children are prone to illness but relatively easy to recover. Because children's nervous systems are not fully developed at birth, many of the pathological symptoms and signs seen in adults are considered normal in children. Therefore, when children have high muscle tone, it should be considered a normal sign at first. It will gradually disappear as the child grows up and the nervous system develops fully.

Secondly, because the umbilical cord was wrapped around the child's neck before birth, the possibility of "hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy" as described in Western medicine cannot be ruled out. The disease is mainly caused by brain hypoxia due to various reasons, which leads to a series of symptoms and signs of the central nervous system. Increased muscle tension is one of them. Therefore, it is necessary to observe closely. If there is no improvement, you need to go to a regular hospital for further examination and treatment.

The development process of muscle tone is characterized by increased flexor muscle tone in the neonatal period, which gradually decreases and returns to normal with increasing age. Therefore, in some less severe cases of spastic cerebral palsy, the increase in muscle tone is not obvious within 6 months, which sometimes makes diagnosis difficult. However, some children with severe spastic cerebral palsy may still show increased muscle tone within 6 months.

To understand the range of motion of the shoulder joint of the upper limb, the "scarf sign" can be checked, and the relationship between the elbow joint and the midline of the trunk can be observed. To understand the muscle tension of the lower limb, the abduction angle, popliteal angle, heel-ear test and dorsiflexion angle of the foot can be checked. When checking muscle tension, you can also use the "traction test". This test is easy to understand. Hold the child's hands and pull them from a supine position to a sitting position. Observe the situation of the head drooping back to understand the muscle tension of the neck and back.