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Bad fall while running. What's this rib injury?

Asked by ETpro (34605points) July 17th, 2011

I was running today, heading into the setting sun, and I didn’t see a change in level of the sidewalk. I tripped over it at a pretty fast pace and had a nasty fall. I made a 5-point landing, hands and knees first, then the right side of my face hit the sidewalk.

I’ll list the obvious injuries, but what’s most worrisome is one I can’t see. The impact to the right side of my body must have stressed the connective tissue in my upper right ribcage. There don’t appear to be any broken ribs. They seem intact to touch, and aren’t sensitive to pressure from the outside. But moving that requires bending my ribcage hurts. Taking a deep breath hurts. What sort of injury is this?

I’ll see the doctor tomorrow. The clinic there has good X-Ray equipment. I’ll get a definitive answer then, bit I was just wondering if anyone has had something like this, or if some of our mrdical gurus know what to expect.

Aside from this one hidden injury, I got a ¾ inch gash just above the right eyebrow, a small cut and big bruise on the bridge of my nose where my sunglasses got driven into it, a cut to the outside of my lip and a cut inside where it smashed into my teeth, a 3 inch round abrasion on my right shoulder that oozed blood till I cleaned and dressed it, a couple of abrasion wounds about 1 inch in diameter on the right knew and a small one on the left knee.

But I really wonder what’s going on with the ribs, and how long that may take to heal.

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