Back pain and hard to breathe

The breath is a rather complex physiological act. When the body is all ok, we don't notice, like breathing. But sometimes you feel pain in the back, when breathing. What is the reason? Let's first understand, how is the spirit, and which authorities are involved in this process.

Back pain on inspiration – or it is dangerous

During inspiration, which includes not only the bronchi and lungs but also the diaphragm, the muscles of the chest, thoracic and cervical, and intercostal nerves. The process of breathing is governed by the brain and the spinal cord. When the intercostal muscles are in a shortened condition, and the diaphragm is lowered, the volume in the chest cavity becomes smaller and the volume of rib cage, on the contrary, increases. Increased volume of thorax expands the lungs, through the bronchi, thus she started on the air. As a result, in the lungs the process of gaseous exchange.

To understand how the inhalation of air, let's see, what can cause pain in my back when inhaling.

Pneumonia is one of the reasons

Pain when breathing in the back can occur due to various reasons, but the main thing is that the debugged mechanism of breathing is broken. In connection with the breathing mechanism can succeed? The most often causes are diseases of the chest, abdomen, localized in the spine diseases that affect the musculoskeletal system and nearby tissues. Back pain when breathing can also occur during pregnancy.

In cases, when deep breathing, pain in the back, pain may occur as a result developed pneumonia, followed by pleurisy. In the pleural layer, which are confronted with each other, thicken as a result of the inflammatory process. When you inhale, they begin to RUB against each other, which causes the characteristic pain when breathing in back. Usually this symptom only accompanied by another: difficulty breathing, fever, cough and General weakness. Among these diseases due to cough may appear painful sensations in the spinal cord to the muscles. This is because when you cough your back muscles and the chest bears a large load. The accumulated in the muscles lactic acid is back pain when breathing.

Reflects the pain

"When you inhale, the back pain," with such appeals often go to the doctor. A similar symptom can be a sign of disease of the organs located in the abdominal cavity. Some of these diseases, which can lead to pain in the lower back on the right. Painful sensations in the stomach, Appendix, gallbladder, etc., is often reflected in nature. That the patient feels the pain away from the affected organ. Pain used of the projection of the field.

When breathing, pain in the back, caused due to the omission of the diaphragm and increasing intra-abdominal pressure. Reflects the the pain of this type is also observed in malignant processes, where the tumor is localized in the abdominal cavity.

Problems in the spine?

However, most often, when breathing, back pain, the causes can be found in a disease in the thoracic, upper lumbar spine and the nearby muscles. What is a disease?

For the first time, osteochondrosis of the lumbar and thoracic spine, accompanied by displacement of the intervertebral discs. The last time the patient also often feels that he has hurt the spine in the thoracic.

Second, quite often, when breathing, back pain for different spinal injuries.

Third, neuralgia between the ribs.

Fourth, in the lumbar or thoracic radiculitis and myositis. These are often accompanied by back pain after sleeping.

The reason for the development of the above-mentioned conditions are adverse factors, such as various metabolic disorders, the direct mechanical effects, and hypothermia. In such cases, lower back pain hurts to breathe due to peripheral nerve injury. The respiratory process in muscle and the ribs is in motion, which movement of the affected nerves and create pulses of pain.

Treatment

As you can see, the reasons for which the back hurts, hard to breathe, the most diverse. Therefore, it is important not to treat and what does not, and to go to the clinic for a full diagnostic of all systems and organs. The examination must include x-ray, EKG, ultrasound of internal organs, if you suspect any of the disease. Review of the mucous membranes of the esophagus and the stomach. And pathology of the spine most effectively detected by MRI.

It's hard to breathe back pain – immediately go to the doctor!

Causes feelings such as the pressure in the chest

When the pressure in the chest, people immediately begin to worry about heart disease. Actually, the majority of the diseases that manifest themselves with similar symptoms, caused by injury to the myocardium or heart muscle. However, there are many other reasons, in which there is oppressive pain in the chest: the ribs, osteoporosis, neurological diseases and myopathies. If you want to identify the source of the pain, we recommend the algorithm of differential diagnostics of pathology described in the article.

The main reasons

Compresses the chest in the following diseases:

• osteochondrosis in the thoracic spine pathology, which is accompanied by a decrease in the amount of the segment of the spine and pinching the nerve trunks. The nerve is accompanied by dull or sharp pain that intensified after exercise;
• gastroesophageal reflux (reflux of stomach contents into the esophagus), which occurs after a meal. It compresses in the chest due to spasmodic contractions of skeletal muscles of food to the wall. The body is in the trachea, so in this pathology difficult to breathe;
• between the ribs neuralgia is due to the degenerative disc disease of the chest or rib injuries. With the disease of the inflammation of the nerve fibers, passing between the ribs. The pain is worse when making sharp turns the upper part of the torso. Breathing difficult in neuralgia between the ribs due to the impossibility of expansion and contraction of the chest wall in the manufacture of respiratory movements;
• peptic ulcer and gastritis – diseases accompanied by increased release of gastric juice alone (before meals). On the background of pathology in the stomach accumulates gas, which leads to the enlargement of the body. The increase accompanied by a pressure on the membrane, so that the patient can not breathe and the feeling that squeezed her heart;
• pulmonary embolism is a dangerous disease, which is characterized by the obstruction of the pulmonary artery thrombus (blood clot) or air. In pathology it is a strong tightness. Without timely treatment, pulmonary embolism leads to death;
• panic attacks, which inflict pain in combination with other symptoms: increased respiration rate, increased force of heart contractions, cramping and twitching of muscles;
• angina pectoris – increased pressure in the chest due to heart failure in hypoxia on the myocardium. Pathogenetic link of the disease is the lack of blood supply if coronary artery by a blood clot or atherosclerotic plaque. The disease may be the result of a prolonged stress;
• with aortic dissection is difficult to consider as the main cause of pain, as is the likelihood of its occurrence, shall not exceed 5%. However, in the pathology associated with the perception that it is in the middle of strangling in the breast. The symptoms are a fast-growing and without treatment leads to death.

The above causes are often trigger pressure in the chest right in the middle. Their detection and treatment can prevent serious complications. But, the diagnosis algorithm should take into account other causes of the disease.

Why problems with breathing

Decision-making why the patient hard to breathe, when the pain in the right breast, doctors have to deal with a large number of pathological conditions. If you want to determine the cause of the disease, they conduct a series of diagnostic tests:

• ask the patient to lift the right arm up. If the person who has the feeling that squeezes the heart on the right, the disease is likely triggered by neurological conditions (panic attacks, between the ribs neuralgia);
• analyzes the heart rhythm. If it is fast, it is impossible to exclude heart disease. For these purposes, is assigned to the EKG, an ultrasound of the heart, and consultation with a cardiologist after the detection of the negative results of the study;
• when you compress the chest during breathing, it can be assumed, the tumor in the mediastinum or pulmonary pathology. In such a situation, the rational prescription of apparatus for radiography or fluoroscopy of the lungs. Symptoms, such as cough, sputum and fever, support the assumption;
• too tight right after eating is a symptom of the evidence for pathology of the stomach or esophagus. If you want to determine the cause of the pain is assigned esophagogastroduodenoscopy and numerous biochemical studies (amylase, ALT, AST, bilirubin);
• if it compresses the upper part of the body to the right when swallowing, it can be assumed, laryngitis. To determine the disease doctor will examine the throat and prescribe the consulting specialist. In cases of suspected sinusitis will have x-rays of the paranasal sinuses;
• after the trauma the person also happens that it is difficult to breathe. Fractured ribs on the right, accompanied by heavy breathing.

These causes of pain right in the chest are the most common, but we can't rule out other etiological factors of disease. To make them you should seek doctor's help. Causes pain left

If there is severe pain in the chest on the left side and hard to breathe, a problem may be due to the following reasons:

• aortic aneurysm – dissection of the membranes of the containers for the accumulation in them of blood and the pressure on the surrounding tissue. Disease confirmed by angiography (study of blood vessels after introduction of contrast agent);
• coronary heart disease (angina pectoris) and myocardial infarction – diseases that threaten their lives. When the compression in the chest so hard to breathe and was in fear for his own life. Pain on the left indicate the beat of large amounts of the heart muscle;
• peptic ulcer – if the pressure in the chest, after a meal. In most cases, the pain weakens after taking the tablet (no-Spa);
• pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas), which also causes strong pain in the left chest. This is enhanced by the ingestion of food;
• hiatal hernia is characterized by shortness of breath after eating. Pathology occurs because of the loss of the bowel into the chest cavity through a weak place in the diaphragm;
• diseases of the spine with compression of the nerve roots.

Below is the list of causes of pain are not final. Right in the chest, to cause painful feelings can be a huge list of pathological conditions. We have shown only the most common of them.

Why compress the chest, in the middle of the

Pain in the chest, in the middle there, when all the above conditions. There are a number of pathological conditions, in which it compresses in the middle:

• muscle cramps occur during exercise, stress and nervous feelings. Taking muscle relaxants pathology disappears on its own initiative;
• longitudinal deformation of the spine (scoliosis) can compress the soft tissue located in the chest cavity. When it can be a violation of bone and cartilage, structures and nerves. A similar situation is observed in ankylosing spondylitis, degenerative disk disease and a herniated disc.

If severe chest pain occurs after physical exertion and stress, we cannot rule out neurological pathology.

In children with these symptoms should be checked in the throat. It is quite possible the awareness that it compresses the chest in the middle.

What to do

When compresses to the chest, you should do the following:

1. Call an ambulance, because some causes are life-threatening.
2. In the sitting position and try to relax.
3. With stable angina to take a nitroglycerin tablet under the tongue.
4. Try silent and steady breathing.

Thus, etiological factor, why the bursting of the chest in the middle, right and left, a lot. To determine the direct cause of the disease is only the doctor. Sam is not treated it is fatal!