Abnormal chest pains without previous diagnosis of a heart condition? seemingly normal ECG? Chest pain caused when looking up? Cardiologist says nothing is wrong? You may be experiencing cervical angina caused by nerve root compression in the neck. Chiropractic may help by optimizing joint function and reducing tissue inflammation and disc compression. All of which may contribute to a buildup of pressure on and around the nerve root. Read on: From The International Journal of Angiology: We report two cases of acute cervical angina and ECG changes induced by anteflexion of the head. Cervical angina is defined as chest pain that resembles true cardiac angina but originates from cervical discopathy with nerve root compression. In these patients, Prinzmetals angina, valvular heart disease, congenital heart disease, left ventricular aneurysm, and cardiomyopathy were excluded. After all, the patients chest pain was reproduced by anteflexion of head, at this time, their ECGs showed nonspecific ST-T changes in the inferior and anterior leads different from the basal ECG. ECG changes returned to normal when the patients neck moved to the neutral position. To our knowledge, these are the first cases of cervical angina associated with acute ECG changes by neck motion. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=historysearch&querykey=1
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:48:50 +0000
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