Back pain when you breathe in

We imagine breathing as such a natural process that we never think about its mechanism. Only when we feel pain in the back or chest when inhaling or exhaling, we begin to think about the reasons that could lead to poor health. Such specialists as a pulmonologist, therapist, neurologist or family doctor can professionally consult you about the causes of back pain when inhaling.

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Causes of back pain when inhaling

1. Back pain when inhaling and coughing can occur due to inflammation of the membrane that lines the chest cavity inside and covers the lungs. Dry pleurisy can occur with various diseases, but most often with pneumonia. Painful sensations with dry pleurisy are reduced if you lie on the side affected by the disease. Restrictions in respiratory mobility of the half of the chest affected by pleurisy are noted. With a percussion sound without changes (loud, fairly long sound of low pitch), weak breathing can be heard due to the fact that the patient spares the affected side, as well as noises arising from friction of the pleura. Body temperature is often subfebrile (37.5 - 38 ° C), symptoms such as general weakness, profuse night sweats, chills can appear.
2. With intercostal neuralgia, there is a sharp pain in the back when inhaling, of a “shooting” nature, which is localized in the intercostal spaces and sharply intensifies when coughing.
3. Back pain when inhaling can also signal that you are developing osteochondrosis in the thoracic spine. The main symptoms are back pain when inhaling, painful sensations in the neck and lower back. In addition, muscle spasms, headaches, numbness in the limbs, a feeling of "running ants", coldness in the limbs, and so on occur. Osteochondrosis of the thoracic spine, radiculitis is one of the rarest forms of diseases that can appear as a result of a viral infection, for example, shingles. This type of disease provokes the appearance of a feeling of pain and discomfort in the back and chest, which intensifies when inhaling and exhaling. Due to osteochondrosis in the thoracic spine, the left arm can often go numb.
4. With lung cancer, the nature of back pain when inhaling, coughing, breathing can be different: it can be sharp, stabbing, encircling with a tendency to increase. The pain can cover a separate area or part of the chest, it is likely to radiate to the abdomen, neck, arms, etc. The pain becomes more excruciating and intense when the tumor grows into the ribs and spine.

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How to get rid of back pain when inhaling

Only a professional has the right to make a diagnosis and prescribe a course of treatment. The following procedures may be prescribed to the patient as a complex therapy:

• acupuncture;
• vacuum therapy;
• gentle manual therapy technique (post-isometric relaxation);
• laser therapy;
• pharmacopuncture;
• dry traction;
• magnetopuncture;
• electrical stimulation;
• other treatment methods.

The course of treatment for a disease whose symptom is back pain when inhaling is on average 10-15 sessions. In order to eliminate acute pain syndrome, you need to attend 1 to 3 sessions. For a favorable result in the treatment of acute pain syndrome in the back, sessions must be held daily, which will give the patient the opportunity to return to normal life as quickly as possible. Sessions can then be held with breaks of 1-2 days in order to eliminate the likelihood of residual effects. The sooner you can start treatment, the sooner the patient can return to normal life.