Cracked ribs?

How can you tell....owwww......

Feels like somebody stabbing you in the ribs everytime you sneeze, cough or tense up, Nothing you can do really, Get an xray if you like to confirm it, But just resting and avoid doing things that make it hurt like hell.
Was it your handle bars stabbing you that caused it?

don't intend on sleeping for the next 3 weeks either, actually take up drinking that'll help

Find where the pain is, push in. If it gives way, it's cracked. If you're pushing between two ribs then you have disjoined them, which is the same really. If it is tender yet solid, you have just bruised them, and are being a big girl.

Nothing you can do apart from not cough, sneeze or get jumped on. Ice pack to reduce swelling if there is any.

find the rib you think is broke put your fingers on that one and the two either side
take a deep breath they should all move as a unit

you're ribs are not cracked unless you are coughing and pissing blood, simple as that.
give over with the nonsense. This is not a medical hypochindriac website.
for ****s sake , here we go with page after page of whinging about something thats as bad as having a splinter!

OK, based on those descriptions I would say nothing is cracked and I am being a girl, I had an over the bars incident, standard stuff, slow motion, this time I was actually getting ready to roll while going through the air, but no, landed heavily on my side with my arm beneath me, and sure enough I heard a slight cracking noise for the ribula region. Painful but no blood and I can breath and what not.

Fecking great spin this morning, 2 inches of snow and not a sinner around.

Byrner you bollix!

Hope you're OK Don!
Obviously not using the Granny Ring - those bigger rings just lead to uncontrollable, irresponsible, unnecessary and ultimately dangerous speeds!!!!

Lack of speed was the problem, a big boulder and not enough juicy speed, it was a technical section of the Miners, I bloody hate it when the front wheel gets stalled and everything else keeps moving.

Don sounds to me like you cracked a rib, classic scenario, just man up and take it though, solpadeine before bedtime, you might get a few hours

Don't listen to them Don....they'll gay the living daylights out of you..!! Imagine that the pain in your chest is a physical reminder of your weakness and vulnerability..make it go away by riding yourself into the ground or destrying the wardrobe with your wife !!

Panic over, turns out the cracking noise was my Swarovski hipflask, bugger, I just had that thing paid off.

thanks Don..i laughed out loud !!

Could be cracked cartialage don, I did it, it hurts, takes a few weeks to fully sort itself out, when it happend to me I banjaxed my knee at the same time, my wonderful girlfriend told me to relax, she would look after me and went to get dvd's..... she came back with memoirs of a geisha and brokeback mountain.... talk about kicking a man when he's down....

2nd laugh out loud !! imagine being made watch Brokeback Mountain..scary stuff..but with your girlfriend, isn't that kind of pervy..?

How can you tell....owwww......

Feels like somebody stabbing you in the ribs everytime you sneeze, cough or tense up, Nothing you can do really, Get an xray if you like to confirm it, But just resting and avoid doing things that make it hurt like hell.
Was it your handle bars stabbing you that caused it?

don't intend on sleeping for the next 3 weeks either, actually take up drinking that'll help

Find where the pain is, push in. If it gives way, it's cracked. If you're pushing between two ribs then you have disjoined them, which is the same really. If it is tender yet solid, you have just bruised them, and are being a big girl.

Nothing you can do apart from not cough, sneeze or get jumped on. Ice pack to reduce swelling if there is any.

find the rib you think is broke put your fingers on that one and the two either side
take a deep breath they should all move as a unit

you're ribs are not cracked unless you are coughing and pissing blood, simple as that.
give over with the nonsense. This is not a medical hypochindriac website.
for ****s sake , here we go with page after page of whinging about something thats as bad as having a splinter!

OK, based on those descriptions I would say nothing is cracked and I am being a girl, I had an over the bars incident, standard stuff, slow motion, this time I was actually getting ready to roll while going through the air, but no, landed heavily on my side with my arm beneath me, and sure enough I heard a slight cracking noise for the ribula region. Painful but no blood and I can breath and what not.

Fecking great spin this morning, 2 inches of snow and not a sinner around.

Byrner you bollix!

Hope you're OK Don!
Obviously not using the Granny Ring - those bigger rings just lead to uncontrollable, irresponsible, unnecessary and ultimately dangerous speeds!!!!

Lack of speed was the problem, a big boulder and not enough juicy speed, it was a technical section of the Miners, I bloody hate it when the front wheel gets stalled and everything else keeps moving.

Don sounds to me like you cracked a rib, classic scenario, just man up and take it though, solpadeine before bedtime, you might get a few hours

Don't listen to them Don....they'll gay the living daylights out of you..!! Imagine that the pain in your chest is a physical reminder of your weakness and vulnerability..make it go away by riding yourself into the ground or destrying the wardrobe with your wife !!

Panic over, turns out the cracking noise was my Swarovski hipflask, bugger, I just had that thing paid off.

thanks Don..i laughed out loud !!

Could be cracked cartialage don, I did it, it hurts, takes a few weeks to fully sort itself out, when it happend to me I banjaxed my knee at the same time, my wonderful girlfriend told me to relax, she would look after me and went to get dvd's..... she came back with memoirs of a geisha and brokeback mountain.... talk about kicking a man when he's down....

2nd laugh out loud !! imagine being made watch Brokeback Mountain..scary stuff..but with your girlfriend, isn't that kind of pervy..?