Jacked up ribs

I jacked up my ribs a couple weeks ago in a hockey game. Can't believe I've never had a rib cage injury prior to this. 12 days later, and it still hurts! Takin regular ibuprofen. I can only take the dogs for walks for exercise, and it sucks! I mean, i like walking the dogs, but, fkna i want to go skiing...

I don't have any clicking in the cage at all, so a doctor friend told me the cartilage that connects them all is just bruised up, take 4-6 weeks to get better. Anything I can do to speed recovery? Anything i really SHOULDN'T do?

Thanks yo!

Don't sneeze

Don't wrap them.

Get a spirometer and use it frequently.

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Originally Posted by basinbeater

I jacked up my ribs a couple weeks ago in a hockey game. Can't believe I've never had a rib cage injury prior to this. 12 days later, and it still hurts! Takin regular ibuprofen. I can only take the dogs for walks for exercise, and it sucks! I mean, i like walking the dogs, but, fkna i want to go skiing...

I don't have any clicking in the cage at all, so a doctor friend told me the cartilage that connects them all is just bruised up, take 4-6 weeks to get better. Anything I can do to speed recovery? Anything i really SHOULDN'T do?

Thanks yo!

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I've broken them 3 or 4 times--lost count--and strained them a couple more. The strained ribs--torn muscles between the ribs--took as long to heal as the broken ones. Other than the obvious--don't do it if it hurts a lot--there's nothing more you can do. Oh, yeah--and try not to get sick.

Don't cough. Don't sneeze. Sleep on your good side. Get a chest xray to confirm no ribs have displaced fractures over vulnerable areas.

For most people Acetaminophen and Nsaids. All your doctor about lidocaine patches, Toradol, and gabapentin.

This will happen again if you like to rip. Embrace the pain.

Patience.

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Say no to ibuprofen

You want inflammation. For healing

Acetaminophen is better.

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Originally Posted by Core Shot

Say no to ibuprofen

You want inflammation. For healing

Acetaminophen is better.

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This is correct. I should have been more specific as I lumped nsaids including ibuprofen and toradol in with the analgesics.

If you are looking for fast healing. I think you were, I would avoid ibuprofen and toradol. If you are looking for pain relief to go shred then you might consider taking them in short bursts. Not daily. Consult your physician.

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Avoid your comical buds

Copy that. No jokes. We did some shit the other night that had me in stitches, and it hurt.

When you're close to the last straw and think you'll go insane, it will get better like flipping a switch the next day.

Quit being such a pansy.

The data on nsaids and fracture healing (if this is a fracture and not strain) sucks and is contradictory. I've never had any trouble healing my own multiple rib fractures on nsaids. or my sternotomy, or my spinal fusion, FWIW (not much). If I had a patient with a high risk of not healing a fracture--diabetic smoker on steroids with a lower tibia fracture-- I would probably avoid nsaids and stick to acetaminophen and opiates. Ribs heal, and if they don't it will because the particular fracture is too mobile, not because of nsaids. Separation between the rib and the cartilage doesn't really heal because why should it. The parts are held together by the surrounding tissue, which will heal.

As far as coughing--while you don't want to get a cold or pneumonia and be coughing constantly, pain control should be good enough that you can cough effectively and a couple good coughs every few hours while help prevent pneumonia.

I came here for the cooking thread. Most disappoint.

Rereading this that did me is proof that having covid and migraine headache creates significant cortical depression with resultant retarded posts. I am out until recovered.

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^^^ ouch.
Yeah mine is turning out to not be that bad. 2 weeks to the day now, and yesterday morning felt significantly better. My Dr friend said, no worries with ibuprofen, so i stuck with it. Definitely still sore and some pain, but way better than it was.
I didn't have a real good set of expectations having not injured my rib cage before. Gonna have me thinking twice before bombing popperton park next time it snows.

Next time--just post that it's an upper body injury or a lower body injury. There's no telling who you play hockey with that might be reading this thread. And the advice you get here will be just as good as if you had posted your full medical record with xrays.

We should have a maggot SL County adult hockey league summit.

well fuck

beatering onto really hard snow fkn sucks

I’ve found that having a couple of those giant squishy ice packs is really helpful for a lot of things. For ribs you can lay down on it on the hurt side with pillows for props. Chill for 30 min. Hot shower after to get blood flow back in the area. Repeat.

Don’t try to do too much too fast. But it’s kinda like a vasectomy - you feel ok-ish so you do a little bit of stuff because you’re bored and then it’s fkn worse.

Wait .... did you choke yer porpoise too soon?????

no but I walked around and did chores and stuff because I was feeling ok then I wasn’t

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Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

I came here for the cooking thread. Most disappoint.

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ok here’s a recipe



start with one old hippy skier

add one easy hike up 1000’ to ski before the lifts turn

mix in one wrong turn with a ski going away

add in a really hard SLAM on the stiff groom

subtract the ski pole I dropped that I got to look at while I slid hard way down below it

points for watching my ski go a long way fast

bonus for the walk down to get my ski


extra points for actually skiing on my gear rather than walking home

in other words

fucking god damn it

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Originally Posted by skinipenem

Don't cough. Don't sneeze. Sleep on your good side. Get a chest xray to confirm no ribs have displaced fractures over vulnerable areas.

For most people Acetaminophen and Nsaids. All your doctor about lidocaine patches, Toradol, and gabapentin.

This will happen again if you like to rip. Embrace the pain.

Patience.

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Checking in on this thread. Just over two weeks out and yeah it sucks. I slammed into a wind lip. Heard a pop. A couple. At the speed I was going, not surprised at all that I am still hurting this far out. X rays were negative. Talked to a rn here at work and she said it will be 6 weeks. Bruised ribs with a bonus of popped cartilage at the sternum. I asked when I could go skiing again, and she said well you can ski anytime, just don't fall and know that it might just hurt like hell.

Been switching off between aspirin, and ibuprofen, with a heavy dose of sativa. Pretty much took 1/2 oxycodones in order to sleep for the 1st 10 days. Now just a gummy and i am good to go.

I have to say, this is going to be one of the hardest things I have recovered from. And I have blown out my knees 3 times.

Buck up and rest. Don't do anything that might set me back, chill and I'll be good to go next year.

I am a skier.



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Oooff, good luck on the heal fkncat!


Have you tried this?

https://www.amazon.com/HealthCareAis...s%2C141&sr=8-5

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Originally Posted by F#*k you cat

Checking in on this thread. Just over two weeks out and yeah it sucks. I slammed into a wind lip. Heard a pop. A couple. At the speed I was going, not surprised at all that I am still hurting this far out. X rays were negative. Talked to a rn here at work and she said it will be 6 weeks. Bruised ribs with a bonus of popped cartilage at the sternum. I asked when I could go skiing again, and she said well you can ski anytime, just don't fall and know that it might just hurt like hell.

Been switching off between aspirin, and ibuprofen, with a heavy dose of sativa. Pretty much took 1/2 oxycodones in order to sleep for the 1st 10 days. Now just a gummy and i am good to go.

I have to say, this is going to be one of the hardest things I have recovered from. And I have blown out my knees 3 times.

Buck up and rest. Don't do anything that might set me back, chill and I'll be good to go next year.

I am a skier.



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As a Browns fan you don’t deserve this. You’ve suffered enough. Heal quick.

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Originally Posted by F#*k you cat

Checking in on this thread. Just over two weeks out and yeah it sucks. I slammed into a wind lip. Heard a pop. A couple. At the speed I was going, not surprised at all that I am still hurting this far out. X rays were negative. Talked to a rn here at work and she said it will be 6 weeks. Bruised ribs with a bonus of popped cartilage at the sternum. I asked when I could go skiing again, and she said well you can ski anytime, just don't fall and know that it might just hurt like hell.

Been switching off between aspirin, and ibuprofen, with a heavy dose of sativa. Pretty much took 1/2 oxycodones in order to sleep for the 1st 10 days. Now just a gummy and i am good to go.

I have to say, this is going to be one of the hardest things I have recovered from. And I have blown out my knees 3 times.

Buck up and rest. Don't do anything that might set me back, chill and I'll be good to go next year.

I am a skier.



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Yeah, if you fall, best to wait for someone to come along to help you up, unless you have some fentanyl handy.

Stacked it hard on the MTB about two weeks ago. X-ray was negative, but I knew I was wrecked.
CT scan proved me right. Displaced fracture on #10, fractures of 9, 7 and 6. Big bottle of Tramadol is helping, but yeah this hurts.

Jeezus, man. You're too old for that shit. Heal... as quickly as is possible.

Is there any kind of support wrap that can help with broken ribs, or at least give a little support so you don't put pressure on them doing everyday actions? A couple days ago I had a bike accident on a straight flat street with a bike lane in the evening, (I wonder a little if I got brushed by a car), and woke up in a C-spine collar being wheeled into a CT scan (and with a cop handing me a victim info form about my missing phone). Broken ribs 5 & 6, only minor subcranial bleed (thanks helmut), bruises and road rash up and down my right side, and my right shoulder is very sore but appears to be a soft tissue injury with nothing broken. Quite possible, as I did a similar soft tissue injury to my other shoulder 20 years ago in a cyclocross race.

Anyway, in the hospital they told me don't bother wrapping my torso as there isn't anything that really speeds up rib healing, but I wonder if there's anything useful to help from getting into painful positions, or to protect against bumps. I can sit around or walk without much pain, but getting in and out of bed sucks. In a crowded grocery store, I was afraid that if someone walked into me, I would fall on the floor in a sobbing heap. I have an old Arva padded vest for trick skiers that I was tempted to wear, but it's much too big. Do I just radiate "Don't touch me" vibes for the next 4-6 weeks?

Suck it up, been there done that.


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Yep. And you gotta be able to breathe deeply to avoid pneumonia... no wrap.

Use your arm or hand to splint the ribs for moving, coughing or sneezing. We don’t recommend a wrap of any kind for ribs anymore.

I had five displaced rib fractures and they popped the cartilage at the sternum, tore the rectus muscle at the bottom of the rib cage and broke my scapula. Pneumothorax, it sucked for months. You’ll get through this.


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If you have an arm sling kicking around, throw that on when you go out. That generally radiates "stay away from me" messaging... also radiates "easy robbery/mugging victim" vibes too so be smart about where you go out and about if you live in a place with sketchy areas.

The other option is to not shower and let the stank keep people away.

Yep. Not much else to do. Don’t take nsaids or ibu
Prevents bone healing.

And yeah getting out of bed sucks. Best is rolling out into your knees.

If you figure it out shout it from the rooftops.
I'm just now feeling better after popping 2 ribs out on opening weekend at Rose. Still scared to sneeze.


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Prevents bone healing.

And yeah getting out of bed sucks. Best is rolling out into your knees.

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Do take NSAIDs, orthopedists prescribed NSAIDs post op and suggest you use them prn. General Surgeons and Trauma Specialists as well. You can take ibuprofen and acetaminophen together and it’s a great pain control. If your doctor will prescribe Robaxin get some. It alleviates the painful muscle spasms.


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Interesting emoji quotes of me.

Anyways. NSAIDs and bone healing don’t work. You need the inflammation to trigger the healing response.

Take oxy or acetaminophen. It’s fine.
But you want the inflammation to heal bone breaks.

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Anyways. NSAIDs and bone healing don’t work. You need the inflammation to trigger the healing response.

Take oxy or acetaminophen. It’s fine.
But you want the inflammation to heal bone breaks.

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The benefits of the pain relief outweigh the negligible delay of bone healing.


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The benefits of the pain relief outweigh the negligible delay of bone healing.


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No doubt. The first few days go for the ibu

But long term it sucks.

Side story after I broke my leg skiing.
Ortho tells this bizarre story about a rodeo clown. I’m not in rodeo country. Anyways. Asks the clown if he’s a smoker. Nope. Then the clown said he pops 800mg ibu four or five times a day. He stops the Ibu and his bones knit. Idk. Maybe anecdotal.
But I did read some studies years ago that supported the idea that inflammation is good for bone healing.
Ymmv