CHEST PAIN(Keywords: chest pain, chiropractic help, painful chest, tietzes syndrome, heart attack )Certainly pain in the chest is not uncommon and, of course, it may be serious. Unless you are ABSOLUTELY SURE to the contrary, it is best to assume that you are having a heart attack. After all, 50% of persons having their first heart attack will die very suddenly within a short period of time, with no prior warning, and if you are wrong ... For more about chest pain from a holistic medical doctor,
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Harvard University reports that 6 million Americans with chest pain were seen in hospital emergency departments in 2009. Only 20% of them were having a heart attack. So what about the 80%? Certainly it is best to consider whether your chestpain could be coming from source other than your heart before having expensive, and sometimes unnecessary procedures, like having a stent fitted, should you be experiencing pain in the chest. But first, what ARE the symptoms of an impending heart attack?
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HEART ATTACK aka Myocardial Infarction or MI.
Painful chest may be caused by a blockage in the heart's arteries which reduces or completely cuts off the blood supply to a portion of the heart muscle. This can cause a blood clot to form and totally stop the blood flow in a coronary artery, resulting in a heart attack usually with much associated chest pain (also called an acute myocardial infarction or MI).Irreversible injury to the heart muscle usually occurs if medical help is not received promptly. Unfortunately, it is common for people to dismiss heart attack symptoms. Doctors use two blood tests, looking for Creatine kinase and Cardiac troponin, that a sure sign of heart muscle damage.
So, what are the warning signs of a heart attack? EVERYONE!!! should know these signs. Print this out and stick it up on the fridge.
It could save your life! ( haws )
Key signs are...
You should also keep in mind that pain from a heart attack isn’t always confined to the area around the heart. For example, a heart attack may cause pain, numbness or other unusual sensations in
PREVENTION
In all of health,"Prevention is better than a cure", but nowhere more so than in regard to heart disease. For starters, think delicious fish soup ... the Heart Foundation recommends "fatty" fish AT LEAST twice a week. Read more: FISH SOUP ... loaded with Omega-3 fatty acids. Read more: SMOKED SALMON DIP RECIPE ... also full of those Omega-3 fatty acids.While it is common knowledge, it is worth repeating: obese persons, particularly fat around the belly, and smokers are at high risk. As are diabetics who are not disciplined. Are you an obese, smoking diabetic? A medical disaster waiting to happen, I'm afraid. You should be too!
Should you be in this high risk category we strongly recommend you visit our olive garden nutrition page for a few things that could put off the impending disaster. It's surely the desire of each and every one of us to go to our graves smiling, in our dotage, rather than, in our prime, leaving broken hearts behind. Yes? Read more about how the olive can help you.
OLIVE GARDEN NUTRITION ....
Just as important make a decision as to when you are going to stop smoking. Put a date to it. January 1 is a good day to turn over a new leaf. Otherwise it may well be the last leaf. Read that delightful story? Take this little cul-de-sac - I'll be waiting for you to finish our Chest Pain tour!
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But even if you're not in the high risk category a good walk has much benefit, on your bone strength, for your back and on your
Exercise and Cholesterol profile.
AT THE COAL FACE
'Doctor, I have pain in my chest. It started three months ago.''Have you seen your doctor, Mr Jones?'
'Yes, I have had extensive tests. They were all negative. Nobody seems to know what's wrong with me?'
'What made you decide to come here for chest pain?'
'My doctor says that it could be muscular. It cost me a packet, and the pain is getting worse not better ...'
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BREASTBONE / STERNUM PAIN
Costo-sternal Syndrome = Tietze's Syndrome
Chest pain is commonly caused by a subluxation of the joint between the rib and the sternum or breast-bone. In anatomical mumbo-jumbo it's called the costo (rib)- sternum (breastbone) syndrome (mixture of signs and symptoms), or in medicalese just Tietzes syndrome. It may be associated with pain along the course of the rib, and in the midback, but this is not necessarily the case. However on deep palpation, the whole rib is painful, from the subluxated rib between your shouderblades, under the armpit, and finally to the breastbone where you experience the pain. Read more: COSTOSTERNAL CHEST PAIN ...It is easy to test yourself: Press firmly on the breast bone, and then let your fingers slide right and left over the junction with the ribs. In this syndrome it will be very tender over some of the joints, on one or both sides, if you have this musculo-skeletal, non-heart, condition. You are almost certainly not having a heart attack! More about the anatomy of the chest. COSTOSTERNAL ANATOMY ...
Just how common are these other causes of musculo-skeletal chest pain, you may be asking? TIETZES SYNDROME CaseFile ... Deep breathing may aggravate musculo-skeletal chest pain, giving sharp stabs of pain in the midback with every breath.
This is a common condition which responds well, and usually very quickly to chiropractic. While your chiropractor should know it, it may be worth repeating that a heavy adjustment in the middle of the back may well aggravate this problem. It took me quite a few years to work that one out. I was napping the day we had that lecture!
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RIB PAIN TREATMENT
Chest pain is not uncommonly caused by a subluxated rib head. It can sometimes be extremely painful in the midback, between the shoulder blades. Where the rib joins the spine there are three small joints any of which can be sprained, causing severe pain.
The common sign is PAIN WITH DEEP INHALATION. In fact it is often described as though someone is stabbing a rusty knife in the back, between the shoulder blades.
The condition is often caused by a violent sneeze, particularly if it is unexpected, and you are twisting or in some unusual posture.
This very painful condition responds very quickly to a gentle highly specific chiropractic adjustment of the rib head.
Home treatment should include an ice pack over the joint for 20 mins (on a dry face cloth) followed by a hot shower. Gentle massage may help too.
More difficult is when it involves the lower ribs. Patients (and doctors) may think that it is renal colic (eg from a kidney stone). A careful, thorough exam is the only way to differentially diagnose this condition. It is a more difficult area to adjust chiropractically, and may take longer to resolve. Despite the fact that a subluxation of a ribhead can cause extreme pain in the middle of the back, the treatment is surprisingly not really painful. Relief is often immediate. Not having it treated, the acute pain usually recedes, but a dull gnawing ache often remains.
Pleurisy also causes pain with deep breathing. If you are feeling ill, running a fever or coughing, be sure to alert your chiropractor.
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RIB PAIN TREATMENT ... click here.
This casefile might interest you if you are suffering from rib pain.
Read more … RIB PAIN TREATMENT CaseFile ...
THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME
This is another perplexing cause of chest (sometimes) and arm pain which confronts the chiropractor on a daily basis. The nerves to the arm and the chest muscles emerge from the lower neck, between the first rib, the collar bone, and some muscles, through a small triangular gap. The so-called brachial plexus of nerves may become entrapped in this triangle causing angina like symptoms, mimicing a heart attack. For more information, click here. THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME ...ASBESTOS / MesotheliomaSymptoms / Chest pain
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