What is the symptom of intercostal neuralgia?

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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. What is the symptom of intercostal neuralgia? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What is the symptom of intercostal neuralgia?

Intercostal neuralgia refers to one or several intercostal parts radiating from the back along the intercostal to the anterior wall of chest and abdomen, showing a semicircular distribution. Most of them are unilateral or bilateral. Coughing, deep breathing or sneezing often aggravate the pain.

Physical examination may have thoracic spinous process, interspinous process or paravertebral tenderness and percussion pain, a few patients have tenderness along the intercostal, affected nerve innervation area may have sensory abnormalities. The nature of the pain is mostly stabbing or burning pain, with the characteristics of radiation along the intercostal nerve. Local lesions can be seen in herpes zoster.

To establish the diagnosis, we should first identify intercostal neuralgia according to the characteristic distribution of pain, and then it is more important to think of and find out the cause of intercostal neuralgia, especially tuberculosis, tumor, osteoporotic compression fracture of the elderly, herpes zoster and other important diseases that are easy to ignore.

matters needing attention

It is suggested that the patient should not keep a posture for a long time, but do a little exercise to reduce the pain caused by a long time. Daily treatment methods can also be drug therapy, acupuncture and massage, etc. these methods can be used to treat intercostal neuralgia.