People often complain about pain in the back below the shoulder blades, and the causes that cause it can be more diverse. As a general rule, the perpetrators of these sensations are converted in diseases of gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, respiratory, as well as problems with the spine. In addition, these symptoms can be caused by the experienced injuries and mobility of the nervous system.
Among the list of possible causes occupy a special place in the pathology of the spine. This is because the mountain range is forced to sustain the whole weight of the human body, providing the bipedalism. Frequent pain below the shoulder blades will also explain the anatomy of this region. The shovel is one of the articulation of the humerus with the clavicle, and to it are attached the muscles responsible for the mobility of the shoulder girdle. In addition, along with the skeleton of the fins of the protects the vital organs.
Types of pain
Pain under the shovel can be very different to different patients. It can be divided into several groups:
- According to the location of painful sensations (below to the right or to the virgin mary with a spatula, in the center, at the bottom or the top).
- By the nature of pain (sharp, pulling, aching, burning, stabbing, stroke, spasmodic, irradiation).
- Of the duration (long or short attack of acute onset, moderate, or recruiting intensity, frequency of appearance).
Is that the back pain (dorsalgia) is produced after a long stay in an uncomfortable posture or an awkward movement. As a general rule, these feelings pass quickly and without consequences, so there is no reason to sound the alarm. But if dorsalgia was beginning to annoy constantly and, however, appeared other symptoms, it is not excluded that behind all of this is nurtured by serious diseases. Ignoring such feelings is not possible that the time lost has not had serious consequences.
Along with dorsalgia in Chuck the area of the patient should be alert to these symptoms:
- febrile status (temperature more than 38 degrees);
- the emergence of a complex of symptoms of "acute abdomen";
- swelling of the hands and fingers;
- the violation of the sensitivity in the upper extremities, a tingling sensation, and "chills";
- shortness of breath, cyanosis of the epidermis;
- vomiting;
- dorsalgia is not passed even in a resting state;
- reduction of blood pressure, bradycardia, and even handled the fainting state.
In this case, to postpone the visit to the doctor, because you must resolve not only the painful symptoms, but the causes that led to its manifestations.
The left side
Among the complaints of the patients is quite common — a sharp right pain under the knife. You can call these causes:
- Shoulder-scapular bariatric with the left side of the location. It is an inflammatory reaction that affects the tissues, adjacent to the humerum ulnar. The main symptoms of the disease are pain of a diverse nature, affecting the area of the neck, the shoulder and the scapula. The pathology most often appears in the background of the injury.
- Torakalgiya (pinched, inflammation of nerves of appendages in costarum space). As a general rule, you have the ringworm of the nature, but often strongly in the subscapular area on the left side. Usually, symptoms is reinforced by changing the position of the body or to the increase of the physical load.
- Periodic pain in this area are characteristic of the stomach ulcers. Its intensity, as a general rule, it started to grow, when this patient dizzy and he opens vomiting. This can happen after meals or on an empty stomach. The first experiences are observed in the epigastric region, and then the patient complains of the appearance of pain in the left side below the articulation of the humerus with the clavicle and the left side of the front below the ribs.
- The defeat of cartilaginous tissue of the intervertebral discs of the mountain range in the cervical spine or dorsal department. In addition to pain syndrome bright symptom of this pathology is expressed by the dizziness, as well as weakness and numbness of the upper extremities.
- Left subscapular, the pain can be relied on in a vegetative crisis. Patients who suffer from panic attacks, often complain of shooting, plaintive laments of pain under the shovel, the one on the left, which is accompanied by anxiety, tachycardia, and sudden weakness.
- Impetum angina or myocardial infarction. The sensations of pain, mainly observed by the breastbone, but it also has a reflection in the subscapular area on the left side. When the patient experiences numbness of the extremities and nausea.
Not in all cases, when patients complain of pain under the shovel, there is the problem of the bone system. Often a symptom that indicates that the post-herpetic neuralgia (the affectation of the peripheral nerves) or myalgia (hypertonus of the muscle cells in a state of tension or rest).
The right-hand side
Pain below the shoulder blades to the right can occur for these reasons:
- Colic hepatobiliary zone. Occur in the background of the difficulty of reflux of bile from their body or the spasms of the smooth muscles. Sharp, cutting pain sensation is felt in Chuck the right-hand pane or in the clavicle, as well as surrounding the upper quadrant, depending on the cause of their education.
- Subphrenic the abscess. This is usually secondary to a disease, complicating during any primary disease in the abdominal cavity. For this condition characterized the hiccups, and also expressed as a syndrome of pain which is also felt in Chuck the right pane, and the improvement of the inspiration.
- The acute form of the inflammatory process in the kidneys. The dull pain, the pain in the side of defeat in the bottom of the back or in the bottom of the vanes. Patients this symptom typically is supplemented with fever, nausea and vomiting.
- Myofascial syndrome. It's pathological state involves the reflector of a spasm that can occur in a variety of muscles. And the sensation of pain is released at the point of spasm, and on the progress of the muscle fibers.
- The herpes zoster virus. Cause of this disease is the herpes virus ⅲ type. It is most common in form, which begins with fever, accompanied by severe pains in the locations of future eruptions. And dermatologic component manifests itself only after 4-12 days.
- Right from the pneumonia. If the inflammatory process affects the right mild, pain syndrome can spread to any part of the rib cage, and you can also give the back, the neck, under the scapula. The pain is usually constant and the pain, and with sudden movements, inspire deep or cough gets worse each time more.
Cramps urine-excretory and hepatobiliary systems are quite often accompanied not only poured out pain in the peritoneum and dyspeptic phenomena, but also piercing pain beneath the right, of the articulation of the humerus with the clavicle (collarbone), the proximal segment of the right-hand side, and even on the right side of the neck.
Irradiating pain
Irradiating (of the viewer) pain below the shoulder blades can be called such causes and possible states:
- duodenitis and duodenal ulcer;
- colic hepatobiliary zone.
- the attack of angina;
- the necrosis of the cardiac muscle at the bottom of the thrombosis of the arteries of the heart aterosclertico the plate;
- cardiovascular disease, which is characterized by the presence of inflammatory processes in the outer envelope of the heart;
- saccular bulging of the aorta;
- spontaneous stagnation of air in the pleural cavity area of the rib cage;
- inflammation of the pancreas in severe form;
- the colic in the kidneys;
- the osteochondrosis of the cervical spine.
Dorsalgia in the Chuck of the area can be very diverse. A dull pain, as a general rule, occurs when the pathology of muscle and connective tissue parts, which connect them with the bones of the skeleton. Pain can indicate moderately expressed by the processes in the andes mountains, in striated and smooth muscle, as well as in the internal organs. Such symptoms not be ignored, it deserves to pass comprehensive diagnosis and choose the proper treatment tactics.
In pregnant patients
During the gestation of the baby, the mom-to-be experience a significant burden in the andes mountains, so you can suffer a dorsalgia, including the articulation of the humerus with the clavicle. And if the patient prior to fertilization, has been diagnosed with osteochondrosis, in the last dates of the situation will only get worse.
In addition, the emergence of a pain syndrome can cause these factors:
- pressure or irritation of the intercostal nerves at the bottom of stress situations, the increase of the physical load or migrated from optical character recognition;
- slow inflammation of the lungs or pleural sheets;
- with the increased level of relaxin' excessive relaxation ligamentous apparatus.
- the muscle tone caused by the change of the center of gravity when it increases the fruit;
- the intensification of pathological processes in the kidneys.
In any case, regardless of whether the patient is pregnant, or someone, if the pain in Chuck area quite intense it is the reason to ask for help in the establishment of health. Albeit with low frequency, but this may be a sign of its critical state in the body that it is absolutely impossible to ignore.