Unbearable back pain blades — what is the reason?

When you have back pain near the shoulder blades should not be smeared different ointments, to stay at home and waiting for a miracle of healing. This symptom may indicate quite different from each other diseases that require timely diagnosis and treatment of a specialized doctor, a neurologist pulmonologist or cardiologist.

Cause pain shoulder blades

Pain in the blades may occur in diseases and injuries of the blades themselves and in some diseases of the chest cage and thoracic spine.

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1. Injuries of the scapula. The most common direct trauma. It happens when a person falls or gets hit with a fist or foot of the scapula. Very rare blade is broken, when the invoice has a straight stem. Fractures of this flat triangle-shaped bone, the lower otlomok his the effect of thrust muscle moves down. The area of the fracture, thus the swelling and swelling.
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2. Paralysis of the front gear, the trapezius and rhomboid muscles, infection and damage to nerves back and myopathies to develop the so-called acquired winged scapula. The reason it can also be a contusion of the region of the shoulder girdle or damage to the long thoracic nerve.
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3. Shoulder crunch with the active movements of the shoulder joint accompanied by moderate pain and the unpleasant sensation of pain in the shoulder blades. It is caused by exostosis of the scapula or chronic inflammation of the synovial Bursa of the subscapular.
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4. Osteomyelitis develops after that, when all open injuries of the scapula and is associated with symptoms of intoxication and pain in the shoulder blade. Often there is a deep, intramuscular purulent streaks. The prognosis of this disease is almost always favorable.
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5. Tuberculosis of the scapula is very rare and only in adult patients.
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6. Tumors of the scapula may be benign (osteoma, osteochondroma, osteoblastoklastoma, chondroma) or malignant (chondrosarcoma, reticulosarcoma). Diagnose them with x-ray. If necessary, perform a needle biopsy to check the nature of the tumor.
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7. Cervical or thoracic spine degenerative disc disease, which irritated the roots of the cervical-brachial plexus, and pain in the shoulder, sometimes radiating into the upper limb, worried, day and night, preventing sleep. The movement is limited.
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8. Burning pain in the area of the left shoulder blade can be a manifestation of such dangerous diseases as myocardial infarction or aneurysm of thoracic aorta.
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9. Pain in shoulder blades and chest can occur in chronic pneumonia, pleurisy and lung cancer.

What to do when back pain blades?

For various reasons, we have understood, now I understand why self-treatment can sometimes bring more harm than good. So, it is important to consult a doctor who will prescribe examination and appropriate treatment.

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• Injuries of the scapula have resorted to the use of analgesics (Movalis, Ketonal) and fixation of the limb with a bandage. Often resort to physiotherapeutic procedures (electrophoresis lidazy and novocaine, ultrasound), which stimulate the formation of callus and reduces inflammation fracture.
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• Neurological disease treatment to the doctor, the neurologist. Widely used in massage and electromyostimulation.
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• Osteomyelitis has been shown to antibacterial treatment, apply surgical techniques: opening and sanitation of purulent focus.
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• When TB patients are hospitalized in specialized hospital, where they undergo a special treatment.
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• When cancer surgical treatment is indicated for: the execution of the interscapular -thoracic resection, preferably with preservation of the upper extremity (if possible).
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• Osteochondrosis is defined by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (Movalis, diclofenac), is a good help in this case, acupuncture, physical therapy and manual therapy. Good therapeutic effect is observed in the application of Lyapko applicator. This set has been developed by the physician Reflexologist reduce back pain, while increasing blood circulation in this area, and aktiviziruyutsya anti-inflammatory mechanisms. The method is based on learning Nulla the effect of specific points on the body.
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• If there is a suspected myocardial infarction, the patient should be urgently hospitalized in the cardiology hospital, where he gives rest, when treatment with anticoagulants and fibrinolytic substances. Pain relieved by narcotic analgesics.
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• Diseases of the respiratory system deals with the pulmonology Department. Inflammatory processes used antibiotics, mucolytics, expectorant drugs, physiotherapy, inhalations. If the cancer process has shown special care (surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy).

Thus, to identify the real cause of the disease and prescribe appropriate treatment can only a doctor. To avoid unpleasant consequences, you should not delay medical treatment, one step, which is an MRI study of the cervical spine to accurately identify disease and its specific characteristics.

MRI-research is an effective and harmless way to get the right diagnosis. In this study, the patient's health is not in danger, but to identify possible causes of negative symptoms. In many ways, the accuracy of the diagnosis depends on clinic equipment. In some modern centers use powerful MRI Siemens 1.5 Tesla. High resolution images are enough to identify, even in the early stages of the disease.