Rib Injury Issue

Ahhh, my area of expertise. Broke them, cracked them, damaged them in pretty much every way possible.

If they were not broken or cracked and you heard a pop then my guess would be cartilidge. Can be pretty painful. Pretty much all rib injurys take 4-8 weeks because you can never fully rest them, laughing, coughing, sneezing and of course breathing puts stress on them.

Something that has always worked for me is to wait about 2 weeks after all the pain is completely gone. I mean 2 weeks after you can do every kind of stetch and general fitness stuff for 2 weeks.

Will it happen again? possibly. If it's healed you shouldn't be any more prone to having them again. All mine seem to be flukes.

Having had all of them I can definitely say that broken is the absolute worse. I had 2 broken ribs and a sneeze would put me on the floor. Played the better part of my junior year footaball with cracked ribs, that sucked. running, breathing, blocking, reaching to catch the ball, getting takled. ugh.

I got thrown funny in class once, thought I'd just knocked the wind out of myself, finished class in some pain. By the time I got home the adrenaline had worn off and I was in pain. Borken rib and 1 cracked. That weekend I was in bed and my dogs were screwing around, I leaned up to yell at them and heard the most disgusting snap ever. The cracked one broke when I sat up. Sounded like a chicken bone breaking.