Acute injury of sternoclavicular articular cartilage caused by severe torsion or chest compression, or viral infection caused by chronic strain or common cold, lead to edema and thickening of sternoclavicular articular cartilage. Or costal cartilage dystrophy, thoracocostal joint inflammation and myofascitis. Its clinical manifestations are chest pain, mostly acid swelling pain, with acute or slow onset, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, which can be aggravated by turning over, coughing, deep breathing and upper limb activity, and sometimes it can radiate to the upper limb. If the tenderness of 2-5 costal cartilage is not treated in time and thoroughly, it tends to recur. Clinically, it should be differentiated from coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, tuberculous pleurisy and other diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the pain of costal chondritis reaches the chest and hypochondrium.
The upper arm is qi stagnation;
Local uplift, obvious tenderness, and the pain point is fixed as blood stasis. Qi stagnation and blood stasis, wind-heat invading collaterals, alternating heat and toxin, qi and blood blocking.
No, it hurts.