What Is the Thoracic Wall?

Chest wall pain (chestwallpain), also known as musculoskeletal pain

Chest wall pain

Chest wall pain (chestwallpain), also known as musculoskeletal pain

Focus only on the pain, and the patient can clearly point it out.

The pain does not last long. It usually lasts only one or two seconds at a time, and there is a chance of recurrence.

When the patient takes a deep breath, coughs, sneezes, or turns, the chest tingles, or even becomes severe.

Pain may be more intense than chest pain caused by other diseases, but most of them improve within a few days to two or three weeks.

It can occur at any age.

Causes of chest wall pain

The patient sprained the cartilage between the ribs and inflamed, that is, costochondritis, is one of the more common chest wall pain diseases.

Inflammation caused by viruses such as influenza. This is Tietze'ssyndrome. (The flu itself can cause bone pain.)

Rare is a rib fracture, but it is also the most painful.

Chest wall pain symptoms

1.Swelling and pain in the chest and chest

The patient felt chest pain at an early stage, and soon afterwards the affected cartilage site became swollen and bulging with tenderness. Deep breathing, coughing, and pain in the upper limbs of the affected side worsen, sometimes radiating to the shoulders or back.

No change in skin surface

The affected area is swollen, the edges are clear and fixed, and there is no adhesion to the skin. The skin surface is smooth without redness and heat.

3. The duration of the disease varies

Most of the pain symptoms of this disease gradually reduce or disappear within 3 to 4 weeks.

In some cases, the symptoms are mild and severe, recurrent, and can be delayed for months or years.

After the affected costal cartilage swells to a certain extent, some gradually shrink; but some pain has subsided, while costal cartilage continues to swell and does not shrink.

Chest wall pain treatment

Inflamed areas will cure on their own without medication. Doctors or prescription painkillers (such as ibuprofen).

If the ribs are broken, the wound can only heal by itself.

You don't need to take antibiotics because it has no effect on the virus.

Chest wall pain is the most common disease in people with general chest pain. Specific treatment methods can refer to the following:

1. Drug treatment

Therapy: Take anti-inflammatory painkillers such as prednisone, or antiviral drugs such as virus spirit.

Disadvantages: Relying on various hormonal drugs to achieve analgesic effects, it can only temporarily relieve pain and cannot cure chest wall pain. And taking hormonal drugs for a long time will have a variety of side effects on the human body, further reduce the body's immunity, and even increase the body's resistance to the drug, making the disease more prolonged and difficult to heal.

2.Physiotherapy

Therapy: Topical application of Nufcaine and Prednisolone closure.

Disadvantages: No essential effect on the disease, extremely easy to relapse, multiple closures will cause greater damage to local tissues.

3. Scraping treatment

Therapy: Traditional Chinese medicine curettage is used to cure the main veins, foot sun bladder meridian, and hand yin pericardium.

Disadvantages: Not suitable for everyone, such as patients with heart disease, hemophilia, etc. Scraping has certain damage to the skin. It will take a long time to finish the scraping. Scraping requires doctors to be aggressive, and patients may struggle to endure such intense pain during scraping.

Chest wall pain care

To prevent chest wall pain:

1. When the weather turns cold, you must first avoid a cold. Always open windows for ventilation, keep indoor air fresh, participate in sports activities, and strengthen your own resistance

2. Always keep warm to prevent cold. Do not take off your clothes immediately when your body is sweating to prevent the wind from catching cold. clothes

3. Be soft, dry, and avoid moisture. If you have a cold, you can get a flu shot if necessary.

4. When working, pay attention to raising the awareness of protection, and correct the posture of lifting heavy objects. Do not use excessive force to prevent damage to the sternocostal cartilage and ligaments.