Bruised Rib
Hi,I’m 25 yrs old. I have played competitive sports my whole life. This soccer season, I have come accross an injury that I have never had before. I think it is a bruised rib, but was wondering if you could verify this for me. I know I initially got it while playing soccer. This happened several weeks ago and I have been playing several weeks with it. I keep aggrevating it every time that I play. The injury is on my left rib cage, over my heart. When I take deep breaths, it hurts. It occasionaly hurts when I move certain ways. Whenever someone elbows me in that area, it feels like I have to thow up! Today as I was running hard in the first 15 minutes of my game, I felt like I was going to throw up as well.Are these typical symptoms of a bruised rib? If so, what can I do to heal quicker? Thanks,Mike
4 comments
mike
hi I’m 15 and I’m not sure if I bruised my rib or not. The reason why I feel the pain is that during the game I got checked hard right into the side of my chest area by the back, and slashed right after that . It hurt realy bad but I kept on playing and now when I sit, laugh breath it hurts and cough cause I have a cold which makes it worse anyway if anybody reads this and cna help me please do
Amanda
If it hurts when you breathe in deeply it could be pleurisy. Check this site out it has a lot of information. https://ufhealth.org/ Even though this is really late, I hope this helps you. I think I bruised my rib, so I was searching for information and came across your complaint. Good luck!
joe
I think you should see a doctor mate, it sounds like it may be broken
ambuhh
I would go to the doctor and get it checked. I think I have a bruised rib. It hurts whenever I cough, and laugh. I can’t stand it. So what other symtoms do you have?