10 Causes of Chest Pain, Besides a Heart Attack
In this video, learn the definition of chest pain and all the potential causes besides a heart attack.
“Chest pain” can refer to any physical pain in any organ between your neck and your upper abdomen. It’s easy to associate chest pain with the heart, but it could also be the lungs, ribs, muscles around the ribs, esophagus, or nerves.
Symptoms of a heart attack often include a tight and crushing pain that radiates up to the jaw or down the left arm. However, many people, especially women, have heart attacks that don’t cause chest pain. Learn more about heart attack symptoms in women.
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