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.
Distance running performed properly is a pushing motion from when the mid-foot strikes the ground. This pushing contributes to the tightness and soreness that can affect the gluteal complex and piriformis muscle. The piriformis muscle lies underneath the gluteus muscle, or buttock. When your glutes and piriformis are tight and fatigued they can cause you to have a sore lower back and hamstrings, poor balance, and even shooting nerve pain down your leg due to sciatica. (Your sciatic nerve shoots through your piriformis. When inflamed, the piriformis compresses this nerve causing the pain.)