Can you deal with common injuries during riding?
In outdoor sports, injury is the most common thing, and riding is no exception.
However, do you know anything about how to deal with the wound? It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand this knowledge.
Next, let’s take a look at the rising posture to see what are the treatment methods for outdoor riding injuries.
Knee injury there are only two reasons for knee injury: first, overwork injury: on the one hand, it may be caused by too long riding time, on the other hand, it may be caused by uncoordinated body during riding.
Second, the knee gets cold in cold weather.
Tips: 1.
Apply ice on the knee for about 20 minutes; 2.
If the pain point is in front of the knee, raise the seat cushion by 2~3mm.
If the pain point is behind the knee, lower the seat cushion by 2~3mm.
When climbing a slope, you often use your muscles alternately in a sitting or standing position.
3.
Keep your knees warm.
It is recommended to wear knee pads or trousers when riding, especially when the temperature is low.
It’s normal for novices or cyclists who haven’t ridden for a long time to feel low back pain, but it’s uncomfortable that sometimes such pain extends to the legs.
Tip: pay attention to exercise these parts during training.
The more you ride, the stronger your back muscles will be.
The high-quality double shock absorption bicycle also helps to reduce the pain in the waist.
Neck pain usually occurs when you stretch your neck for a long time, and the muscles in your neck will also be tired and sore.
Tips: 1.
Adhere to the correct riding posture – do not hold the handlebars too tight, sink the elbows and shoulders, relax the whole body, and ensure the flexibility of upper body movement.
2.
Often massage the neck muscles.
If the pain persists, you can find a chiropractor to massage the bone setting.
Skin abrasion skin abrasion is generally caused by external conditions, such as excessive riding speed, inattention, brake failure, etc.
Tip: the most basic treatment is to clean the wound with medical disinfection cotton swabs and red medicine.
To keep the wound clean, wear loose clothes.
Sometimes tetanus vaccine is given according to different abrasions.
Skin inflammation skin irritation may be caused by friction between the skin and clothing, as well as by contact with pollen in the air.
Tips: 1.
Pay attention to personal hygiene, and conduct antibacterial treatment on the body and skin.
2.
Before departure, you can wipe the easily inflamed parts with vaseline and tea tree oil for lubrication and protective treatment.
3.
It is recommended to choose clothes with long sleeves.
Choosing professional cycling clothes will also reduce skin friction.
If the weather is warm, wear thinner and looser clothes.
Sunburn male riders usually ignore the problem of sunburn.
In fact, it is easy to get sunburn (inflammation, damage, etc.) when the skin is exposed to strong ultraviolet rays for a long time.
Tips: 1.
Apply sunscreen: before departure, apply sunscreen to the exposed parts of the body, such as the face, nose, arms, arms, neck, ears, exposed legs, etc.
2.
Wear leg and arm covers on the legs and arms.
3.
Calamine liquid and ice cubes can help alleviate sunburn.
Stick to using high-quality skin lotion to relieve symptoms and keep sunburned parts moist.
4.
If there are scars, be sure to cover them with clothes and other things.
Acne infection often occurs between the legs.
It is developed from the damage of the skin epidermis caused by mutual friction and extrusion between the skin and the seat cushion.
Sometimes it is caused by endogenous hair.
These prickly sores can easily fester after being infected by sweat.
Tips: 1.
Buy high-quality riding shorts.
Those with good quality usually have less friction with the skin.
2.
After riding, change into clean and dry clothes immediately after taking a shower.
3.
If you have acne, when the acne is mature, cut it open, squeeze out the pus, and then disinfect it.
At the same time, use hot wax to remove the hairs on the infected part, so as to avoid the deterioration of acne.
However, it is neither hygienic nor safe to handle it by yourself.
It is recommended to go to the hospital.
Why should we emphasize wearing riding glasses when riding with eye injury? Of course, in order to avoid some things hurting the eyes, such as sunlight, insects, plants, dust, stones, mud, etc.
Tips: 1.
Wear riding glasses; (you can buy glasses with replacement lenses or glasses that are automatically adjusted according to the light).
2.
If mud splashes everywhere, you can’t just wear glasses.
At the same time, you need to turn your face to one side to prevent mud from entering your eyes.
Fracture injury if there is a fracture, it is generally a serious riding accident.
Although this is an accident, you might as well know more about it and be prepared.
Tips: 1.
If you can handle the wound yourself, you should first handle the wound yourself: cover the wound with a clean cloth, and then tie it up, so as to prevent the outflow of blood from the wound; Then fix the injured part with bandage or splint.
2.
Calm down and seek medical advice; If you are waiting for rescue, be careful not to make the wound hit by external forces.
This sharp, sudden pain in the ribs caused by the injury of the diaphragm when it is pulled up from under the ribs.
Tips: 1.
Warm up before exercise.
2.
When riding a bicycle, do not bend your back on the handlebars.
Straighten your back and chest, leaving enough room for the diaphragm to move.
3.
The riding speed should be based on the ability of the body to bear.
Heat stroke and lack of water a big challenge for cycling in summer is the hot sun.
If the human body cannot control its temperature through the perspiration mechanism, it will suffer from heat stroke.
Tips: 1.
Carry the person suffering from heat stroke to a cool place.
After taking off his clothes, wrap it with a sheet soaked in cold water.
You can also put the patient in the bath to reduce his temperature below 38 ℃.
If the patient is sober, give him saline every ten minutes to replenish water.
2.
Riders can bring some cooling oil, Rendan, shidishui and other medicines to prevent heatstroke..
