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Pain in the lungs when running
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Pain in the lungs when running or cycling should force the athlete to stop exercising and make every effort to determine the cause of this pain without panicking. Intense loads often reveal serious diseases, which the person previously had no idea. Knowingly in clinics (on an exercise bike or a treadmill) stress tests are conducted, allowing the doctor to reveal the hidden cardiological problems of the patient.
Pains in the lungs during sports training, intense breathing or coughing may indicate a disease of the pleura, the near-heart region or the mediastinum. Attacks of pain can be as sharp or as blunt.
If during the training, you have experienced pain in the lung, at the beginning, perform a preliminary independent external examination with your fingers - try to feel the sore spot by the method of light pressure and careful movements. If you managed to determine the place of the disease - then it is most likely in the spasm of the muscles or in the infringement of the nerve endings. This happens in untrained people with an unusual load: with intensive breathing, muscles contract more often, resulting in spasm and the infringement of nerve endings.
If the pain inside the chest is painful or there is dizziness, then the problem is probably more serious. In any case, you need to immediately consult a doctor to determine the cause of pain.
[The main causes of pain in the lungs when running
- Sometimes the pain in the lungs during running occurs as a result of inflammation of the membrane, which lining the chest cavity from the inside and covers the lungs. This disease is called dry pleurisy. The cause of dry pleurisy can serve various diseases, but most often - it's pneumonia. The disease is characterized by the attenuation of pain in the patient, if he is in a forced position - lies on the affected side. Body temperature, while most often subfebrile, sometimes chills, night sweats, increased weakness. With an external examination, it is possible to identify the weakening of respiratory mobility of the affected side of the chest. When examining the stethoscope - against the background of unchanged percussion sound can listen to the noise of friction of the pleura.
To establish the diagnosis and to appoint or nominate correct treatment in this case to you the therapist or the family doctor can.
- Pain in the lungs during running, difficulty in free movement of the chest can be observed with functional disorders of the thoracic spine or rib cage. The cause may serve as chest osteochondrosis.
Identify this disease can be by palpation and the detection of local soreness in the region of the spinal nerve. The correct diagnosis in this case you can put a neurologist.
- With dry pericarditis (lesions of the serous membrane of the heart), chest pain is observed with inspiration and movements, as a result, the depth of breathing of the patient decreases, and this aggravates shortness of breath. Patients with pericarditis suffer pain from minor to severe.
A cardiologist can help in this case.
- The cause of pain during running or other physical exercises may be a shortening of the inter pleural ligament. The patient in this case there is a regular cough, which is amplified by conversation, physical exertion, deep inspiration, as well as disturbing stitching pains. The inter pleural ligament is designed from the union of the visceral and parietal pleura in the root of the lung. As it descends caudally down the medial edge of the lungs, it branches into the diaphragm and its legs. Its function is to provide a springy resistance when the diaphragm is displaced. If the inflammatory process occurs in the chest, the inter pleural ligaments shorten and thereby limit the caudal displacement.
- Often patients who experience pain in the lungs, confuse the nerve pinched (intercostal neuralgia) with pulmonary diseases. For intercostal neuralgia is characterized by "shooting" pain sensations along the course of intercostal spaces, which sharply increase with inspiration.
To help or assist to put the exact diagnosis in this case the doctor can only. The problem of intercostal neuralgia deals with a neurologist.
- The cause of pain in the lungs when running can serve as a renal colic. With this disease, the pain is localized in the epigastric region and in the right hypochondrium, extending later in the abdomen. Attacks of pain are given to the right shoulder, under the right scapula and intensify when inhaled. When palpation of the gallbladder area, pain is also observed. Local pain occurs as a result of pressing the thoracic vertebrae in zone X-XII to the right of the spinous islets with 2-3 transverse fingers.
- Fracture of the ribs also causes severe pain with intense breathing or coughing. A fracture can happen from a stroke or strong compression of the chest. Treatment in the event of a fracture may appoint a trauma doctor.