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Re: [RC] Ribs - heidi

How soon do you ride with bruised or green stick fracture to ribs?  Do
you  wrap?  I would appreciate suggestions as I don't want to stop
riding and I did  make a fast, hard dismount last Saturday.  Not the
kind I will repeat soon.


Did this a year and a half ago myself, although the "dismount" was off of
a tipping-over backhoe, not off of a horse.  (Net result is just as
painful, though... <g>)

My situation is complicated by being asthmatic and being prone to
bronchitis anyway, so I DON'T wrap--I need to keep those ribs as mobile as
possible, and keep the air flow to the max.  So my own approach was to
take good pain meds and to stay as active as possible.  I let the
limitation be that I just didn't do anything that made the pain unbearable
over the pain meds.  You do need to know that there is truly nothing
broken clear loose, to where you have points of ribs puncturing things. 
But otherwise, my own feeling is to just try not to get in harm's way
where you might repeat the injury (and really bust 'em before they are
fully healed), but otherwise to be as "business as usual" as possible.

Heidi



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