# Chest Wall Pain

#### <span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">**What is it?**</span>

##### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A type of muscle pain in the chest.</span>

#### **<span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">Types of Chest Wall Pain:</span>**

- ##### **Bruised chest muscles** 
    
    
    - #####  from excessive coughing, straining or minor injury can cause harmless chest pain.
- ##### **Costochondritis** 
    
    
    - ##### causes pain and tenderness in and around the cartilage that connects your ribs to your breastbone (sternum).

##### If you have costochondritis, pressing on a few points along the edge of your breastbone often triggers considerable tenderness. If gently touching the area with your fingers causes chest pain, it's unlikely that a serious condition, such as a heart attack, is the cause of your chest pain.