help me out please

[boss]

ok i really dont know too much about this.

i fell off of my bmx on wednesday, not an uncommon occourance but this time i fell on my ribs from about 3 feet up! there was a defante pop there and i have an amazing bruse but im not sure weather i have cracked a rib or something. is ther any cartalage or something between your ribs that could have made funny noises????

any help would be appreciated

boss

[trecfive]

NHS/Casualty has the best answer

[pux]

Good luck boss, there is not much they can do for ribs :'( :'( :'( and i really do feel your pain. But better to get checked out :D

[carracarra13]

ribs aand e will comferm just dont cough

[lee celtic]

Go to A&E and get it checked.....

I had a mate who hit a wave hard when on a jet ski banged his ribs and a week later went to A&E only to find he'd got a slowly deflating lung (slow puncture) and a few cracked ribs  :shock:

If theres nothing wrong... your a wuss ... if there is your hard and a hero  ;)


So if theres nothing wrong you better lie to us  :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Jake]

Happy days
I have a double knee and rock shins from years of BMXing.
Park,ramp and street sessions will do that to the body
I took up the far safer sport of skate boarding and now have dodgy ankles and wrists
I love proper sports
 :D

[lee celtic]

I was in a bunny hop comp using my Huffy pro 5 , I did a jump 3 tyres high and 4 long at speed and as I landed the top bar on the handle bars and the one peice crank snapped and I hit the seat hard... :(

walking like John Wayne for a week  :oops: :oops:

gave up skateboards after grinding my chin down and chipping my teeth doing car jumps (board goes under you go over)  :oops: :oops:

Then I started playing American Football for Oldham Pheonics , dislocated right shoulder , cracked ribs ,Knackered knees... :oops: :oops:

I then took up Darts ....I love proper sports  ;)

[Sider]

Between the ribs and the sternum and vertebrae, there's what in Spanish is called a semi-mobile joint (same as between the bones in your skull), dunno what the English witch doctors call them. If you heard a crunchy/poppy noise, either you have fractured a rib, or luxated one of those joints.

Best course of action is to head straight to the vets, have your thorax X-rayed, and let them perform their voodo on you. It is quite easy for a broken rib to bruise your pleura (or worse, pierce it) and that could cause no end of respiratory problems.

Or in layman's terms: HEAD FOR A&E, YOU KNUCLEHEAD!!!!!  :lol: :lol:

[topless matt]

I ride downhill and took a nasty spill in kent, fell from 12 feet up onto a solid quarry floor.
Had a chest and back protector on for once along with the rest of my armour and managed to bruise my collar bone and crack 3 ribs......... still drove home 70 miles in the 90 lol
If it hurts when you breathe and laugh, it will be a bust rib, just tape it up or strap it and leave it, it is all that the hospital will do.

Get better soon mate

[winchman]

NHS/Casualty has the best answer

Thats what you should do as you cant tell if any internal damage has been done and if so better to find it now and get it sorted.
Take a book as it could be a long wait, but better safe than sorry

[old joe]

Speaking from a medical back ground e.g 10 years FAW 7 years ST John and SWMBO in the ambulance service i can say a few words that many others have spoken!!!!!!!!!!!!

GET TO A&E

Just me thoughts

Dazza

[lee celtic]

So boss have you been to A&E then or are you still being hard  ;)

[muddyjames]

if it gets any worse I can give you a number of someone who can help you out. they really know thier stuff.

thier number is 999  ;)

[landybabe]

I recently found out that you can dislocate a rib, maybe not as bad as a break but still very painful  :shock:

Echoing previous advice...Get To A&E  :roll:

[freelanderpx54]

get yourself to a&e. I have been to a&e cos I thought I was having a  heart attack ( chest pain short of breath clammy pins and needles) and the a&e staff were brilliant. the SECOND wife was very reasuring not.


cheers
John

[boss]

yah went off to a&e cracked one. nothing else wrong they just said take it easey....well worth the 4 hour wait :lol: want one of the fit nurses either

thanks for all the replys, sorry i hadnt got back to anyof you but ive been driving lorries around all week starting at 7:30 and getting home at 7. not too much time for keybording.

[marky]

Glad to hear that you're not too badly damaged. :)