Due to the lack of awareness of danger in young babies, it is easy for accidents to occur when they learn to crawl or walk, causing harm to their bodies. However, parents must know how to distinguish their babies' injuries in order to provide timely treatment and avoid adverse consequences. Some parents have asked about the difference between a baby's hand strain and dislocation?
There is a significant difference between hand strain and dislocation. Firstly, the degree of injury is different between the two, with dislocation being much more severe than strain. Dislocation refers to the displacement of the upper and lower bone ends of a joint in a certain area, which is not in the normal position and often occurs in the shoulder joint. Dislocation can lead to a hollow and elastic fixation of the glenoid joint, resulting in loss of joint function.
And sprains mostly refer to soft tissue contusions, that is, injuries to muscles, ligaments, fascia, tendons, synovium, fat, joint capsules and other tissues below the skin and bones, as well as peripheral nerves and blood vessels in different situations. However, hand sprains do not cause joint function loss, so they will not cause particularly serious results.
Secondly, the symptoms of the two are also different. After dislocation, there will be local swelling and severe pain, and the joint in the dislocated area will be elastically fixed in a certain movement or state, unable to move anymore. Although sprains may also show local swelling and pain, the injured area can still move, but the pain will worsen during movement.
