Anyone who has ever injured their ribs can attest to just how miserable rib injuries are. Whether you’ve broken them, cracked them, dislocated them or torn the cartilage around them, any rib-related injury is very painful, and there isn’t a whole lot you can do for these types of injuries, either.
I’ve had issues with my ribs on my right side since I was in the eighth grade. I was competing in our county’s track and field meet in the long jump event; I went a little too hard, ate tremendous shit, and discovered almost immediately I could not breathe, nor drag my sand-ridden ass up and out of the pit. My mom took me to the doctor to get checked out, and at the time, I wasn’t told anything terribly helpful or specific aside from I had probably seriously pulled some muscles. Fast-forward to the last rugby game of my high school career in which I was completely pile-driven by a player on the opposing team; I heard a crunch and couldn’t breathe once again, however, upon getting checked out after this incident, I was informed I had torn the cartilage that holds ribs to the sternum, or something along those lines.
Ever since the rugby injury, I’ve had more problems with my ribs than ever before. Just recently this same rib that has given me grief in the past has come back to be a bitch yet again, so I wanted to look into something called Slipping Rib Syndrome.
Check out a description of it from ribinjuryclinic.com
“Slipped rib syndrome was first described in the early 1900’s by Cyriax and is an underdiagnosed and often poorly understand condition of the costal arch or margin. It’s caused by excessive movement of the anterior cartilaginous part of the lower ribs as they ‘join’ the costal arch. The excessive movement or hypermobility of the anterior part of the ribs, typically the 8th, 9th or 10th rib is probably caused by either congenital or acquired (following a minor injury or repetitive strain) disruption of the fibrous junctions of these ‘false’ ribs at the costal arch, allowing the tips of the ribs to move or slip under the rib above. The movement causes lower rib or upper abdominal pain.”
Interesting, eh?
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