Is intercostal neuralgia sternal tenderness

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Some patients with intercostal neuralgia can make them feel particularly uncomfortable. Life will be greatly affected, some people say intercostal neuralgia is a kind of sternal tenderness. In fact, there are differences between these two kinds of pain. Let's talk about whether intercostal neuralgia is sternal tenderness.

Is intercostal neuralgia sternal tenderness

First, intercostal neuralgia is a subjective symptom. Intercostal nerves from the thoracic spinal cord to both sides, through the intercostal to the anterior chest wall, innervate the muscle branches of the corresponding thoracic paravertebral back and chest wall, and the sensory branches along the intercostal. Therefore, intercostal neuralgia is from the chest back along the intercostal syncline downward to the midline of the anterior wall of chest and abdomen.

Second: thoracic intervertebral disc degeneration and protrusion, joint capsule and ligament thickening and ossification often lead to nerve channel stenosis deformation, can cause intercostal nerve inflammation, pain. As well as thoracolumbar or spinal cord tumor, spinal cord or thoracolumbar spinal cord dislocation, spinal cord or spinal cord injury. Herpetic intercostal neuralgia is often severe.

Third, bone pain is mainly caused by the proliferation of leukemic cells in the bone marrow cavity, resulting in the increase of the volume pressure of the bone marrow cavity, and the infiltration of leukemic cells into the periosteum to stimulate the sensory nerve. Anatomically, the sternum plate is very thin, the skin covering this part is also very thin, and the periosteal sensory nerves are also rich. Therefore, it is very sensitive to touch and pressure, and often produces obvious tenderness.

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Intercostal neuralgia and sternal tenderness have different causes, so they can't be the same kind of pain. Generally speaking, intercostal neuralgia is mainly caused by lumbar injury, which makes the patient suffer from lumbar pain, while sternal tenderness is caused by increased pressure in the bone marrow.