| July 6, 2017 | | |  | | | | | | This could be a sign of one of the most feared things in medicine | | That might not be muscle soreness from your boot camp class. It could be aortic dissection, a tear in the wall of the largest artery in the body, explains Dr. Jonathan Kerr, a family physician at Belleville Queen's University Family Medicine Centre in Belleville, Ont. That artery originates from the heart and is very important. While the condition can potentially become fatal very quickly, there is a window of time to get to a hospital for life-saving surgery. The pain is extremely sharp, adds Kerr, so you won't mistake it for just a nagging muscle pain. Read more: | | | | FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL NETWORKS | | | SIGN UP FOR OUR OTHER NEWSLETTERS | | | | |  | | | |  |           | If you would like to subscribe to our other newsletters, please click here.
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