What Causes Chest Pain? Chest pain is a common symptom of many heart problems, including: Coronary artery disease, which happens when cholesterol builds up on the walls of your arteries. This can make your arteries narrow, or even block them completely, raising your risk of a heart attack or stroke.
Piriformis. The piriformis is a flat, pyramid-shaped muscle that lies parallel to (in line with) the gluteus medius muscle's back margin and underneath the gluteus maximus muscle in the hip area.t takes up the most area in the greater sciatic foramen. It is a small muscle when compared to other muscles of the region. The piriformis helps rotate the hip and works with rotators such as the obturator externus and the gemellus inferior.
Piriformis syndrome is characterized by lower back pain, pelvic pain, pain in the buttock or hip, and/or sciatica. The main player is a muscle called the piriformis (OK, OK, but you didnât know it was a muscle, did you?), which is seated in the gluteal or buttock region, and attaches from the tailbone (sacrum) to the thigh bone (femur).