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Back pain with inspiration
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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We imagine breathing as such a natural process that we are never visited by the thought of its mechanism. Only when inhaling or exhaling we feel pain in the back, chest, we begin to think about those reasons that could lead to unimportant well-being. Professionally consult you about the causes of back pain when you breathe in such specialists as a pulmonologist, therapist, neurologist or family doctor.
Causes of back pain during inspiration
- Pain in the back with inspiration and coughing can occur due to inflammation of the membrane, which lining the chest cavity inside and covers the lungs. Dry pleurisy can occur with various diseases, but often - with pneumonia. Painful sensations in dry pleurisy decrease, if you lie on the diseased side. Notice the limitations of respiratory mobility of the half of the chest, which is affected by pleurisy. With percussion sound without changes (loud, sufficiently long low-pitched sound), low breath can be listened to because the patient spares the affected side, as well as the noise caused by the friction of the pleura. Body temperature is often subfebrile (37, 5 - 38 ° C), symptoms such as general weakness, profuse night sweats, and chills.
- With intercostal neuralgia, there is an acute pain in the back with the inspiration of the "shooting" character, which is localized in the intercostal spaces and sharply increases with coughing.
- Pain in the back with inspiration can also signal that you develop osteochondrosis in the thoracic spine. The main symptoms are back pain with inspiration, pain in the neck, lower back. In addition, there are muscle spasms, headache, dumbness limbs, a sense of "running goosebumps", cold in the limbs and so on. Osteochondrosis of the thoracic spine, radiculitis is one of the most rare forms of diseases that can appear as a result of a viral infection, for example, shingles. This kind of ailment provokes the appearance of a sensation of pain and discomfort in the back and chest area, which increase with inhalation and exhalation. Because of osteochondrosis in the thoracic spine, the left arm can often be drowsy.
- With lung cancer, the property of pain in the back with inspiration, coughing, breathing can be different: it is acute, stitching, girdling with a tendency to increase. Pain can cover a separate area or part of the chest, probably its irradiation in the abdomen, neck, arms and so on. Pain becomes more painful and intense when the tumor sprouts into the ribs and spine.
How to get rid of back pain during inspiration
Only a professional is entitled to diagnose and prescribe a course of treatment. As a complex therapy, the patient may be prescribed the following procedures:
- acupuncture;
- vacuum therapy;
- sparing method of manual therapy (post-isometric relaxation);
- laser therapy;
- pharmacopuncture;
- dry stretching;
- magnetopuncture;
- electrostimulation;
- other methods of treatment.
The course of treatment of the disease, the symptom of which is back pain with inspiration, averages 10-15 sessions. In order to eliminate acute pain syndrome, you need to visit from 1 to 3 sessions. For a favorable result of treatment of acute pain syndrome in the back, sessions must be performed daily, which will allow the patient to return to normal life as soon as possible. Sessions in the future can be carried out with breaks of 1-2 days in order to eliminate the possibility of occurrence of residual phenomena. The earlier it turned out to start treatment, the sooner the patient can return to normal life.