Other names: a heavy feeling in the chest

What is it about

Pressure on the chest can manifest itself in various pain – astringent pain, dull, shooting, suffocating pain. All these species can be based on structures that are located in the chest and are lungs, heart, pleura, ribs, muscles and spine. It always depends determine exactly which place hurts and causes of chest pressure. Pain and pressure on the chest wall can cause shingles, for example, rib fractures,breast pathology in women. From the cardiovascular system (the system including the heart and blood vessels) here includes possible causes of myocardial infarction, inflammation of the heart muscle or package heart (myokarditia, pericarditis), pressure and pain pulmonary embolism with high blood pressure in the pulmonary vessels (pulmonary hypertension) and condition when dissecans aneurysm.

Suggestions that come from the lungs and their packaging (pleura), the following may be – inflammation of the pleura (pleurisy), pneumothorax, or tumors.

They are here to reflect and pain of the spine and causing painfully or may exert pressure. Such problems include arthritis of the spine, Bechterew’s disease, tumor process in bones – in the ribs or vertebrae.

What to do?

As you can see, the possibilities are many and they are all serious, so correct and early diagnosis will help to timely medical treatment that is almost every other symptom. Therefore, it is worthwhile to delay in seeing a doctor.

In short at the end

Tightness of the chest can also cause long-term stress. Man is the entire downloaded in tension, breathing tends to be shallower and shallower, which can in situations where you need to deliver more oxygen into the body, causing pressure and tightness in the chest. Also, this feeling is caused by untrained individuals at high physical performance.

Other names: angina pectoris, angina pectoris, pain behind the breastbone

To estimate the severity of this symptom, you must first consider the nature of the pain, its location (location) of the chest and the relationship to physical activity.

Pinching pain behind the breastbone in the area about the size of a fist becoming ill while working, fast walking or agitation testifies for angina, especially if after a moment of rest pain subsides.

In the same place and the same character is described pain in acute myocardial infarction, whose development but is not necessarily tied to physical activity. To maximum pain develops over a few minutes as well as angina pectoris can, however generally to a greater extent, reach the left arm, neck and jaw.

The sudden, shocking pain behind the breastbone radiating to the back and abdomen may indicate a life-threatening dissecting aortic aneurysm.

Inflammation of the heart sac (pericarditis) again may occur chest tightness in the heart, but the pain has a slow onset, it persists for a long time, and sometimes there is a partial relief seated.

Lung tissue is not innervated sensitive nerves, and therefore do not hurt until the process does not exceed on the lining of the thoracic cavity. Then the pain is present prickly character, especially in the breath and cough (pleural pain). The culprit is most often involving inflammation of the chest wall and thoracic organs, or tumor. Sudden pain pleural character can mean pulmonary infarction (acute escheat of lung tissue).

Chest wall can also be caused by a wide variety of processes that affect the nerves (eg. Oppression, shingles), chest muscles and brachial plexus (physical exertion, persistent cough, injuries), ribs and spine (spondylarthritis).

Excessive production of gastric juices to return to the esophagus can cause searing pain in her back and sternum, aggravated lying down, standing subsides.

According to the intensity of chest pain or pain subsides if in a certain position or at rest, it is possible to estimate the severity of the disease causing. She entered if the pain is sudden and high intensity, always call an ambulance! In other cases, as soon as we find your doctor or emergency room.