Pain in all the chest

All nerves that control the thoracic region of the spinal cord are located in close proximity to each other. Problems in one of the chest can therefore cause painful events nearby. For example, pericarditis may resemble pleurisy, pleurisy pretend to blockage by a blood clot, and all three seem like a heart attack. Irritation of the diaphragm, the muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal and diaphragmatic hernia may also cause discomfort in the chest that simulates coronary disease. The nerves that go to the chest can be crushed arthritic-like outgrowths on the vertebrae or intervertebral disc bulges, causing symptoms that are indistinguishable from those described above.

Sometimes the pain of muscle spasm - especially after hard work or lifting some weights. As a general rule, if you hurt when you click on a certain area on the chest, so the problem is not in the heart or lungs.

Finally, always think about the shingles, felt a sharp pain anywhere, any place. From time to time in the medical practice, confusion - all signs seem to point to a broken rib, pneumonia or heart attack: a sudden sharp, localized pain. Full external examination and analysis is not detected anything. But a few days after treatment of the patient there is a characteristic rash of shingles on one side of the chest. It never crosses the middle line of the body. And then it becomes clear that the cause of chest pain was shingles.