Chest tightness and shoulder pain may be caused by bad habits, pleurisy, heart disease and other reasons.
1. Bad habits: can lead to neck and shoulder muscles and the surrounding soft tissues are repeatedly stretched, local congestion and edema to form aseptic inflammation. For example, if you work for a long time with your head down, the pulling of the shoulder muscles causes ischemia in the head, which can cause chest tightness and shoulder pain.
2. Pleurisy: inflammation of the lungs, tumors, etc. can lead to inflammatory lesions in the pleural cavity, manifested as chest tightness, chest pain, and can radiate pain to the shoulder, causing shoulder pain.
3. Heart disease: such as coronary artery atherosclerosis, causing insufficient blood supply to the myocardium, there will be chest tightness and radiating pain to the left shoulder and left upper limb.
Chest and shoulder pain may also have other reasons, it is recommended to go to the regular hospital in time, under the guidance of the physician for related treatment, daily attention to shoulder warmth, correct bad sitting posture.