Pain in the chest and between the shoulder blades: what to do?

Caution : You must consult your doctor for your health. This page presents only a personal and alternative point of view which should not be considered as an attempt to prescribe medicine.

Having pain between the shoulder blades and the chest is very problematic because you breathe much less well.

This type of problem can happen during a great stress, an emotional shock or even a great effort.

Most often this disease comes from a musculoskeletal problem in this bone.

Problems with the scapula are often the result of poor posture or intense physical exertion without warming up.

There is tendinitis, dislocation of the shoulder and in some cases fibromyalgia.

As for the chest pain can be more serious.

Indeed, it can be the sign of an embolism, a heart attack, a pericarditis, a pneumothorax or a pneumopathy.

Whatever the case, the first thing to do is to contact the emergency room to be taken care of quickly.

The goal is to immediately make a first diagnosis.

The person will answer several questions about his medical history and his lifestyle.

It is then possible to do an electrocardiogram or various tests depending on the case.

How to relieve the painful point under the scapula?

For shoulder blade pain, it is possible to start by making certain movements.

The goal is to relieve the pain so you have to adapt these exercises so as not to make the pain worse.

The best for these exercises is to lean against a mus while bending the knees.

You have to start by moving your head from left to right very slowly.

Repeat this ten times per side.

Remember to keep your head against the wall and straight.

Then do a ten-fold tilt from left to right.

Take a long exhale of about 10 seconds and 10 times in a row.

This aims to mobilize the ribs down which is very good against pain and stress.

Another exercise is to bring your arms up to the level of your head, leaving them in contact with the wall.

You have to do this slowly until you have tension in the muscles.

Hold the position while exhaling as above.

Roll a ball between the vertebrae and shoulder blades to ease the pain.

It is advisable to take rubber balls of different diameters.

For chest pain, it is often advisable to calm your breathing and contact the emergency room.

How to breathe to decrease the tightness in the chest?

These very particular pains are very often the result of too stressful a life or too intense and poorly controlled physical effort.

Anyway in this kind of situation what is essential is to breathe well.

In fact, when we are under stress, we breathe much less well because our diaphragm is not relaxed.

We must therefore start by working this essential part of the body to breathe well.

It is not very complicated but you have to have the right gestures as they are presented in the video workshop below.

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