Chest pain in ankylosing patient, what is going on?

Patient message: I used to have joint pain and low back pain.

Does it have anything to do with stiffness?

Patients with ankylosing spondylitis will experience symptoms of chest pain, which is caused by the development of the disease, the involvement of the thoracic spine and the involvement of the back and spine joints

In fact, in the course of tonic disease, many patients will have "anterior chest wall pain"

Why does stiffness cause chest pain?

Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic inflammatory disease involving the sacroiliac and axial joints.

In the early stage of ankylosing spondylitis, most of the lesions are confined to the sacroiliac joint and lumbar spine.

When the disease involves the thoracic spine, ribs, and sternocostal joints, the symptoms on the body are pain in the chest area, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and side chest pain

Chest pain in patients with ankylosis is usually the development of the disease for more than several years.

What are the dangers of thoracic spine involvement?

When the thoracic spine is involved, it presents with back pain, anterior and lateral chest pain, and the most common kyphosis

For example, when the costovertebral joints and the manubrium joints are involved, the chest pain is band-like, the expansion of the chest is limited, and the chest pain is aggravated when inhaling, coughing or sneezing

In severe cases, the thorax remains in a breathing state, and the thoracic expansion is reduced by more than 50% compared with normal people, so abdominal breathing can only be used to assist

Since there are many important organs in the thoracic cavity, if the thoracic vertebrae and sternocostal joints have lesions, the normal operation of each organ will be affected

How to treat chest pain with rigidity?

Chest pain in patients with ankylosis is essentially a symptom of sternocostal joint inflammation.

Chest pain is often strong until it reaches the middle and late stage, and the treatment is greater than that in the early stage

In addition, for the limited thoracic movement caused by ankylosing spondylitis, regular exercise, such as chest expansion exercise, swimming, rehabilitation exercises, etc.