Chest wall pain, also known as musculoskeletal pain is usually concentrated in only one spot, which the patient can clearly point out. The pain is not long lasting, usually lasting only one or two seconds at a time, with a chance of recurrence. The patient’s chest tingles or even hurts sharply when he or she breathes deeply, coughs, sneezes or turns around. The pain may be more intense than the chest pain caused by other diseases, but most of them resolve within a few days to two or three weeks.
The causes are generally the following three.
1, the patient sprained the cartilage between the ribs and inflammation, that is, costal chondritis, is one of the more common chest wall pain diseases.
2.Inflammation caused by viruses such as influenza, this is Tietze’s syndrome.(Influenza itself can also cause generalized bone pain.)
3.Rarely, the rib is broken, but it is also the most painful.
Treatment
1. The inflamed area will heal on its own without medication, so your doctor may prescribe pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory medication (such as ibuprofen).
2, broken ribs can only be healed on their own.
3, no need to take antibiotics, because it can not have any effect on the virus.
Chest wall pain is the most common chest pain people have the highest incidence.
Specific treatment methods can refer to the following.
1.Medication
Treatment: taking anti-inflammatory and painkilling drugs such as prednisone, or antiviral drugs such as viralin.
Disadvantages: rely on a variety of hormonal drugs to achieve analgesic effect, only temporary relief of pain, can not cure the chest wall pain. And long-term use of hormonal drugs will produce a variety of side effects on the human body, further reducing the body’s immunity, and even increase the body’s resistance to drugs, making the disease more prolonged and difficult to heal.
2.Physical therapy
Therapy: local use of nufcaine and prednisolone closed.
Disadvantages: no essential effect on the disease, very easy to relapse, multiple closed to local tissue damage.
3.Scraping treatment
Therapy: using traditional Chinese medicine scraping therapy, mainly scraping the Ren pulse, foot sun bladder meridian, hand convulsive Yin pericardium meridian, etc.
Disadvantages: not suitable for all people, such as heart disease patients, hemophilia patients, etc. Gua sha has some damage to the skin, and it takes a long time to wait after one scraping. Gua sha requires the doctor to be strong and the patient may have difficulty in tolerating such intense pain during the scraping process.