What Are the Most Common Causes of Chest And Arm Pain?

Chest irritation is more common in acute rib chondritis, which can occur suddenly and feel chest tingling, bouncing, or soreness; those with ache can have slow onset, swelling, dull pain, and sometimes radiate to the shoulders, back, armpits, neck and chest, and sometimes chest tightness and belching Pain is relieved at rest or lying on the side. Deep breathing, coughing, lying on the back, chest extension and fatigue will increase the pain. The pain is more limited, and there are fixed tender points. The diseased rib cartilage may have bulges.

Basic Information

Visiting department

orthopedics

Common locations

chest

Common causes

Rib chondritis, or rib osteomyelitis, infectious rib chondritis, exfoliative rib syndrome, angina pectoris, etc.

Common symptoms

Dull or sharp pain in the chest with affected rib cartilage, tenderness and swelling, spreading to the shoulder or back, can not raise the arm, the pain persists

Causes of chest tingling

1. Rib chondritis caused by chest pain may be related to viral infection or trauma. The course of the disease can last for several hours or days, but it can recur and often heal within a few months. Individuals can last for several years. Possibly due to: physical exertion: intense and long-lasting labor, causing excessive fatigue. Full meals, drinking and excessive smoking. The mental nerve is overexcited and excited. Severe cardiac insufficiency: unstable angina pectoris. Hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia. Certain antiarrhythmic drugs.

2. Possible diseases are: rib osteomyelitis, infectious costal chondritis, exfoliative rib syndrome, angina pectoris, etc.

Clinical manifestations of chest tingling

The affected rib cartilage feels dull or sharp chest pain, tenderness and swelling, deep inhalation, coughing or coughing or moving the affected upper limb. The pain worsens, sometimes releases to the shoulder or back, and can not even raise the arm. No change; pain varies in severity and often persists, affecting the patient's work and study. After the pain disappears, the enlarged costal cartilage can last for months or years. Sometimes after exertion, the pain will come on and the onset will be urgent and slow.

Chest tingling check

Physical examinations and neck flexion tests are performed as appropriate, and ECG, exercise ECG, chest radiography, and cardiac ultrasound are performed if necessary.

Chest tingling diagnosis

Diagnosis is based on medical history, clinical manifestations, and examinations.

Differential diagnosis of chest tingling

Unstable angina

Unstable angina pectoris is characterized by progressive exacerbations of angina pectoris, new onset breaks or nocturnal angina pectoris or prolonged duration of angina pectoris.

2. Pain in the anterior heart area

Anterior cardiac pain is mainly seen in the fibrin exudation phase of acute pericarditis. The inner surface of the pericardium's visceral and parietal layers is free of pain nerves. The outer surface of the parietal layer below the fifth or sixth intercostal level has the pain fibers of the phrenic nerve. Only then does the pain appear. Anterior cardiac pain is often caused by changes in posture, deep breathing, coughing, swallowing, and the supine position, especially when the leg is raised or the left side is supine, and it is relieved when sitting or leaning forward. Pain is usually confined to the substernal or anterior region of the heart, and often radiates to the left shoulder, back, neck, or upper abdomen, even to the lower jaw, left forearm, and hand.

3. Pain in the heart socket

People often call the pain in the heart and socket as epigastric pain, and most of the pain in this area comes from stomach and duodenal diseases. Except for the stomach and duodenum, organs such as the gallbladder, pancreas, left liver lobe, common bile duct, and heart are close to or close to the heart fossa. The appearance of lesions in these organs can also cause "gastric pain".

Chest Tingling Treatment

Treatment of primary diseases, supplemented by symptomatic treatment.

1. Taking painkillers, you can add prednisone to relieve pain.

2. Give antiviral drugs, such as virus spirit, 3 times a day.

3. Topical use of Nufcaine and prednisolone closure.

The adjuvant treatment can massage the part by itself, several times a day, or use physiotherapy methods such as electrothermal magnetic lamp, infrared and other physiotherapy.