Thoracic osteochondrosis

Thoracic osteochondrosis is rare, but it is very often confused with other diseases of the chest due to similar symptoms. This type of degenerative disc disease, like everyone else, arises because of violations of metabolic processes in the spine and increase the load on the intervertebral discs. Pain in breast osteochondrosis arises as a result of infringement of the spinal cord nerves.

 
The symptoms of thoracic osteochondrosis is a feeling of pain in the chest area (at night, movement, physical exertion, after a long stay in one position), with a deep breath, while walking there is pain between the ribs, the pain between the shoulder blades also occurs when a show of hands. When breast osteochondrosis a feeling of compression of the thoracic body.

In the acute phase flow thoracic osteochondrosis pain lasts for several weeks. Also for this type of degenerative disc disease is characterized by two symptoms - dorsago and dorsalgia. Symptom dorsago is a sharp sharp in the chest, they have paroxysmal in nature and accompanied by shortness of breath. Symptom dorsalgia - not strong pain in the lumbar vertebrae of the thoracic, are gradually increasing nature, duration of up to three weeks.

Thoracic osteochondrosis is often confused with diseases such as angina, heart attack, renal colic, pneumonia and others. Because of this pain symptoms. Independently determine the chest arthritis is impossible, so diagnosis can only be a specialist.