Causes of pain in the middle bone of the chest include sternal trauma, sternal tumors, and dislocation of the sternal styloid.
The bone in the middle of chest is the sternum, which is composed of three parts: the sternal stem, the sternal body and the raphe.
1. Sternal trauma: due to the direct effect of violence, such as impact, car accidents, falling and other reasons, the most common is when the driver suddenly decelerates when the seatbelt is not fastened, the sternum hits the steering wheel, resulting in sternal trauma.
2. Sternum tumor: it often manifests as bulging and pain in the sternum area.
3. Sternocleidomastoid dislocation: it is a special type of sternal injury, which is not common in clinic. It is manifested as obvious concave deformity and obvious pain at the junction of sternal styloid body during the examination, which is aggravated when taking a deep breath.
Causes of pain in the middle of the chest bone may also have other reasons, such as acute heart attack, pulmonary embolism, etc., when there is pain in the middle of the chest bone, we should go to the hospital at the first time, after a clear diagnosis and active treatment.