VASCULITIS & SOFT TISSUE HEALING: HOW SPORTS THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE CAN HELP RELIEVE AND BENEFIT VASCULITS SYMPTOMS
Blood vessels are the structures responsible for transporting blood from the heart to the rest of the body and vice versa. These elements of the circulatory system transport nutrients, waste substances, and oxygen. Like other elements of the body, they can be injured by a disease or condition, jeopardizing their main functions in the body. For some reason male subjects tend to be less predisposed to suffer from exercise-induced vasculitis. This condition has got a mean rate of 38-40 affected people per million population. Moreover, the main cause of cutaneous vasculitis is infection with 22% of all studied cases, drugs account for 20%, and connective tissue disorders display just about 12% (Prabhakar M. Sangolli et la, 2019).
Vasculitis means ‘inflammation of the blood vessels’. An autoimmune disease, which means your immune system (which normally serves to protect us from infections and cancers) attacks the blood vessels by mistake.
- Skin Rashes and ulcers
- Red Eyes, maybe dry / gritty in appearance
- Joint Pain & Swelling
- Breathlessness, wheezing, coughing up blood.
- Hearing Issues, deafness / noises in the ear
- Sinus Pain, Headaches, Nosebleeds
- Loss of sensation, weakness, unusual painful symptoms in the hands and feet, hotness pins & needles
- Tummy Pains, diarrhoea sometimes blood in the stools.
- Blood maybe visible in Urine or Protein.
Treatment for vasculitis generally involves long term drugs called immunosuppressants, which are tailored to everyone’s needs. Understanding how best to manage and when to take these drug treatments are supportive in the prevention of vasculitis. Sports Therapeutic Massage treatment is highly beneficial in the treatment of Vasculitis helping to promote blood flow, circulation of blood flow through the blood vessels improving immune response. You can book a sports massage or remedial relaxing massage by visiting the link below.
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THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT VASCULITIS SYMPTOMS
The causes of vasculitis are unknown, so it is idiopathic, but some studies conclude that they have an autoimmune condition factor, in which the body itself is attacked by the immune system. Other factors that can trigger vasculitis are adverse reactions to certain medications or genetic components.
Vasculitis is divided into two types: primary, which has no etiology, and secondary, which can be triggered by an infection, drug, or toxin, or as part of another inflammatory condition or cancer.
Are you tense, stressed out, or dealing with a greater illness? Maybe it’s just fatigue and you’re looking for a natural relief? If so, you should definitely have a therapeutic massage. In this sense, a high-quality sports massage at My Sports Injury Clinic can help you relieve tension and improve physiological blood flow through the body.
On top of that, findings report that vasculitis can also be presented after vigorous physical activities such as hiking, road biking or running, more specifically when it is performed under sunny days and warm weather. Women aged 50 and over are more prone to develop this small- vessels vasculitis condition, which is distinguished for presenting edema, petechiae, itch, pain, and skin rash (Robert I Kelly et la, 2005).
Generally speaking therapeutic massage with our sports physios in Manchester can help relax musculature and works on targeting specific body trigger point areas to provide relief. Each individual treatment
Anyone who is seeking better circulation, relief from muscle tension, or decreased levels of stress is a great candidate for therapeutic massage in our Sports-related Injury Clinic in Manchester. Therapeutic massage also complements other types of alternative healthcare.
WHY SHOULD I VISIT MY SPORTS INJURY CLINIC FOR THIS CONDITION?
At My Sports Injury Clinic we carry out a detailed assessment of the condition, where we record a series of data that allows us to establish or confirm the diagnosis and objectively measure the evolution of the patient.
At our Sports Injury Clinic in Manchester, we provide sports physiotherapy which allows the provision of counselling and the adaptation of rehabilitation in order to stave off injuries, restore optimal function of the body, and contribute to the improvement of sports performance, indicated for athletes and clients who wish to have a physiotherapy service oriented towards rehabilitation after an injury, the development of preventive and compensatory plans for the main injuries produced in sport and the evaluation and control of the professional athletes and clients, on top of that, we strive to always assist and help our patients in an emotional, physical, and mental way so the recovery will be in all senses.
Our services are the following, acupuncture in Manchester, Dry needling, sports massages, deep tissues massage, massage therapy for musculoskeletal disorders, Red light therapy in Manchester, Physical Manual therapy.
WHAT ARE THE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF VASCULITIS?
The symptoms that accompany the characteristic inflammation of this disease are fever, loss of body weight, tiredness, arthralgia, headaches, diplopia, and muscle fatigue. In addition, other symptoms such as skin rashes, petechiae, ulcers, and nodules often occur. In the same way, this disease is sometimes accompanied by ischemia or necrosis (Shraddha Jatwani et la, 2022).
WHAT IS THE TREATMENT FOR VASCULITIS? CAN VASCULITIS BE TREATED WITH SPORTS MASSAGE, DOES IT WORK EFFECTIVELY?
Within the treatment used for vasculitis are drugs such as corticosteroids, NSAIDs to reduce inflammation, or immunosuppressants as these last build the foundation treatment for pretty much all types of systemic vasculitis (Imad Uthman, 2004). Furthermore, in certain cases surgery is often used as a means of treatment in the place where the injury or disease is located. The physiotherapeutic approach to vasculitis will be when there is a condition that compromises the circulation to the lower and upper limbs, for which thermotherapy, cryotherapy, circulatory massage, hydrotherapy and kinesitherapy are used.
CAN PHYSIOTHERAPEUTIC TREATMENT DEAL WITH VASCULAR CONDITIONS IN A BENEFICIAL WAY?
The vasculitis in which physiotherapy in Manchester will be necessary will be those in which the inflammation of the arteries compromises the blood supply of the upper and lower limbs. At first, pain relief will be sought and then the ischemic lesions of the different affected tissues will be restored.
In order to increase peripheral circulatory irrigation, physiotherapy will seek to relax the vessels, warming up areas distal to the injured area, to reduce the vasospasm of the artery, causing the vascular tone of the entire body to decrease, to improve the collateral irrigation to the affected part, thus compensating for the deficiency of the damaged arteries. There are different physiotherapy techniques that can be applied:
Thermo Heated Red Light therapy
Direct application: It is in angiopathies that are functional where direct heat can be applied. In organic angiopathies it is only possible in cases of areas with proper circulation. Be careful not to burn the area.
Indirect application: In angiopathies that are organic. As blood temperature rises, the medulla oblongata is activated and a general reflex vasodilation occurs. Treatment should be stopped if cyanosis is detected or it causes pain. The thermotherapy techniques used can be; directly or indirectly: Peloids, thermophores, paraffin. Radiation thermotherapy: Infrared. Conversion therapy: High frequency currents (short wave or microwave). Ultrasounds.
Cryotherapy
Cold treatment is valued for the reactive vasodilatation it causes. Take extreme care when dealing with affected vessels that react with considerable vasoconstriction.
If we apply cold with little intensity and for a short time, a controlled vasodilation and temperature increase occurs. In applications of medium intensity or exposure of about seven or eight minutes, there is a reduction in circulation and a constriction of the vessels. Vessel dilation may or may not occur.
In high intensities or in a prolonged exposure, superior to twenty minutes, a paralysis of constriction and dilation of the vessels is produced, being able to arrive at an arrest or blood stagnation.
REFERENCES
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Kelly RI, Opie J, Nixon R. Golfer's vasculitis. Australas J Dermatol. 2005 Feb;46(1):11-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-0960.2005.00127.x. PMID: 15670170.
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