Pain between the shoulder blades is a fairly common clinical manifestation. It should be noted that it can indicate many different diseases. Very often, the causes of such sensations are untimely recognized. This leads to quite lengthy examinations and the use of varying complexity of therapy. That is why it is necessary to identify
why the back between the shoulder blades
hurts , by listing a long list of diseases for which this symptom is characteristic.
Causes of discomfort in the upper interscapular back
The pain between the shoulder blades is quite wide variety. It can be sharp and sharp, and it can be aching, chronic or bursting. In rare cases, such sensations are manifested with a feeling of weight on the back, frozen, crawling "goose bumps" or normal numbness. However, it should be noted that in all of the above options, pain between the shoulder blades is always an unpleasant and uncomfortable phenomenon, which has a significant impact on human life.
The main factors provoking such pain:
- sedentary work;
- the complete absence of any physical exertion (for example, elementary exercises, classes in the pool or sports hall, etc.);
- sharp lifting of heavy objects, running, jumping, etc. (especially if such actions were performed by an untrained person);
- sedentary lifestyle;
- Also, a person may complain that he constantly hurts between the shoulder blades after receiving various injuries (falls, blows to the back, car accident, etc.).
In the event that all of the above reasons have nothing to do with you, then most likely this symptom indicates that you are sick. In order to understand what diseases can cause severe or barely perceptible pain between the shoulder blades, consider their list in more detail:
- osteochondrosis of the spinal column, in which excessive deposition of calcium salts in the joints plays an important role;
- mechanical damage to the structures of the cervical or thoracic spine (such a deviation may occur due to dislocation, contusion, falling from a height, etc.);
- scoliosis in the cervical or thoracic region, which often arise due to an uncomfortable posture while sitting, walking, etc.
- kyphosis, or rather, excessive curvature of the spine in its upper section;
- kyphoscoliosis, namely: a violation of posture, which occurs as a result of a combination of curvature of the spinal column to the left or right with kyphosis in the chest;
- spondylarthrosis, which is a form of osteoarthrosis;
- protrusion of the disc in the spinal column, namely: in the thoracic region (in another way, a hernia of the intervertebral disc, which has just begun to develop).
Also, the causes of pain between the shoulder blades can be chest, as well as cervical sciatica, intercostal neuralgia, shoulder-shoulder periarthrosis, coronary heart disease, infectious diseases, pathology of the mediastinum, pleura or lungs (pleurisy, pneumonia), etc.