re broken rib in article d zb b w w oneb almanac bc ca jc oneb almanac bc ca writes fell about weeks ago down into the hold of the boat and broke or cracked a rib and wrenched and bruised my back and left arm my question i have been to a doctor and was told that it was best to do nothing and it would heal up with no long term effect and indeed i am about better however the work i do is very hard and i am still not able to go back to work the thing that worries me is the movement or clunking i feel and hear back there when i move certain ways i heard some one talking about the rib they broke years ago and that it still bothers them any opinions your doctor is right it is best to do nothing besides taking some pain medication initially some patients don t like this and expect or demand to have something done in these cases some physicians will tape the patient put a lot of heavy adhesive tape around the chest or prescribe an elastic binder all this does is make it harder to breath but the patient doesn t feel cheated because soemthing is being done about the problem either way the end results are the same howard doyle doyle pitt edu
