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Few symptoms are more alarming than chest pain.
In the minds of many people, chest pain equals heart pain. And while many other conditions can cause chest pain, cardiac disease is so common and so dangerous that the symptom of chest pain should never be dismissed out of hand as being insignificant. The purpose of this article is to help you understand chest pain what it feels like, what might be causing it, how it should be evaluated, and when to treat it as an emergency. Chest pain is an imprecise term. It is often used to describe any pain, pressure, squeezing, choking, numbness or any other discomfort in the chest, neck, or upper abdomen, and is often associated with pain in the jaw, head, or arms.