Chest pain may be characterized by involving pain, cutting pain, burning pain, or pins and needles pain. The characteristics of chest pain caused by different diseases are different. 1. Chest pain on the left side of middle-aged and elderly people is common in coronary heart disease. If it is an angina attack, there may be cutting pain, boring pain, paroxysmal attacks, attacks with clear triggers. If it is an attack of acute myocardial infarction, the nature of the pain is more intense, may be accompanied by a sense of near death. 2. Pain caused by local soft tissue trauma or infection, with a clear location, confined to the injured area, mostly accompanied by redness and swelling, which may be localized severe pain or clear pressure pain. 3. If the pain is caused by intercostal neuritis, it will be tingling, burning pain, and distributed along the intercostal nerves in the form of semi-circular bands, and the pain is relatively intense. 4. Chest pain caused by costochondritis is mainly dull, distending or stabbing pain, there will be a clear pressure pain, moving the upper limbs or coughing violently when there will be involving pain, mostly in the upper chest. 5. Chest pain caused by respiratory diseases is generally sharp pain, deep breathing, coughing causes pain aggravation. 6. The presence of cardiac neurosis may also have the symptom of chest pain, mainly pins and needles pain, the site is not clear or wandering. Chest pain can be caused by many conditions, it is recommended to go to the hospital to clarify the cause.