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What Causes Pain And Tightness In Chest And Back?

Hi. I am a 45 year old female. For the past 3 days, I have experienced tightness in my chest and neck that won t go away. I have no cough. I don t smoke. My back is achy, too. I just and uncomfortable... making is hard to sleep. I have been treating it with heating up a rice bag and placing it on my neck and chest.
Mon, 20 Oct 2014
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Dear friend the particular type of pain that is affecting your chest and neck is always because of muscle pain ,the muscles of which are responsible for giving your rib cage a particular shape and holding neck straight.so lying in neutral position will always help you to decrease pain.then you can also take some analgesic to get relieve.what you are doing as putting hot bag in the place relaxes thoses muscles a bit.so you can carry that on.a home regimen of back strengthening exercise helps a lot.so in these conservative way I am sure you can get relief from this nagging pain.
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What Causes Pain And Tightness In Chest And Back?

Dear friend the particular type of pain that is affecting your chest and neck is always because of muscle pain ,the muscles of which are responsible for giving your rib cage a particular shape and holding neck straight.so lying in neutral position will always help you to decrease pain.then you can also take some analgesic to get relieve.what you are doing as putting hot bag in the place relaxes thoses muscles a bit.so you can carry that on.a home regimen of back strengthening exercise helps a lot.so in these conservative way I am sure you can get relief from this nagging pain.