Pain between the shoulder blades is prettya common clinical manifestation. It should be noted that it can indicate a variety of different diseases. Very often, the causes of such sensations are not recognized in time. This leads to long enough examinations and application of varying complexity of therapy. That is why to reveal why the back hurts between the shoulder blades, it follows from the listing of a long list of diseases for which this symptom is characteristic.
The causes of unpleasant sensations in the upper interblade part of the back
The pain between the scapula is quite widediversity. It can be sharp and sharp, and can be aching, chronic or bursting. In rare cases, such feelings are manifested with a sense of weight on the back, icing, creeping "goosebumps" or ordinary numbness. However, it should be noted that in all these cases, the pain between the scapula is always an unpleasant and uncomfortable phenomenon, which has a significant impact on human life.
The main factors that provoke such pain are:
- sedentary work;
- complete absence of any physical exertion (for example, elementary charging, exercises in the pool or gym, etc.);
- sharp lifting of heavy objects, running, jumping, etc. (especially if such actions were performed by an untrained person);
- sedentary lifestyle;
- also a person can complain that he constantly hurts between his shoulder blades after receiving various injuries (falls, backstrokes, car accidents, etc.).
In the event that all of the above reasonsto you have no relation, then, most likely, this symptom says that you are sick. In order to understand what diseases can cause a strong or barely perceptible pain between the shoulder blades, consider their list in more detail:
- osteochondrosis of the spinal column, in which the excessive deposition of calcium salts in the joints plays an important role;
- mechanical damage to the structures of the cervical or thoracic parts of the spine (such a deviation can arise due to dislocation, bruise, fall from height, etc.);
- scoliosis in the cervical or thoracic region, which often arise from an uncomfortable position during sitting, walking, etc.;
- kyphosis, or rather, excessive curvature of the spine in its upper part;
- kyphoscoliosis, namely: a violation of posture, which occurs due to a combination of curvature of the spine to the left or right with kyphosis in the thoracic region;
- spondylarthrosis, which is a form of osteoarthritis;
- protrusion of the disk in the spinal column, namely: in the thoracic region (in other words, the hernia of the intervertebral disc, which has just begun to develop).
Also the causes of painbetween the scapula can be thoracic, as well as cervical radiculitis, intercostal neuralgia, humeroscapular periarthrosis, ischemic heart disease, infectious diseases, pathology of the mediastinal organs, pleura or lungs (pleurisy, pneumonia), etc.
