Terrible Upper Back Pain...

[melodic218]

SO for a while now, I have been dealing with a chronic excruciating pain in my upper back.
I can only describe it as a very sharp stinging pain in between my spinal column and shoulder blade,
and it occurs on both sides of my back in the same spot. I've tried resting it, i've taken otc painkillers,
and nothing helps. After sometime off of it, the pain stops, but if i try doing anything athletic, it starts
right up again. I cant begin to describe how debilitating this situation has been for me. My whole life I
have been involved in athletics and these past few months have been terribly hard for me...I have no insurance,
and im just hoping someone with any helpful advice can share their thoughts with me. I feel like I need to know what is going on here because this pain just will not go away...Again the pain is a stinging feeling, no numbness thankfully, and it occurs between my spinal column and shoulder blade, so I dont even know if it would be characterized as a back issue, or a trapezius issue. Any helpful advice would be so appreciated, thank you. I'm 5'10 150lbs...just to give you an idea of my body type..

[Natural Life]

Several differnt things could be going on. Does it stab you through when you take a deep breath? if so, a rib could be misaligned (ribs attach to two vertebra in three places), which presents like that. Do you spen a lot of time bent over? People who work at a computer all day have the same complaint. Maybe a compression fracture of one of the vertebra.... that would present like you decribe, as the spine becomes hyper kyphotic, the shoulders round forward and extra tension placed on the rhomboids causes them to knot up. When I had that same type of problem, my T4 vertebra had misaligned to to something I did at work. Could be a lesion in your lung. Many things could cause it, but it does need to be checked out---- its not going away, is it? and better to fix a small problem before it becomes a bigger problem.