Many patients present to their doctors with the chest pain. Most of the times these patients are showing symptoms of cardiovascular disease or gastrointestinal disorder. However, sometimes doctors also come across a chest pain which is musculoskeletal in nature. This article focuses on such chest pain which is musculoskeletal in nature. Generally, when a patient is presented to the physician with the complaint of chest pain, often physician suspect reasons which are either cardiovascular or related to gastrointestinal in nature.
However, in many cases musculoskeletal reasons also cause chest pain. The musculoskeletal chest pain can be distributed into either isolated musculoskeletal chest pain syndromes or systemic disorders. The systemic disorders are generally associated with either rheumatic or non-rheumatic diseases are. The first step in the assessment of musculoskeletal chest pain…
