Hi all doctors, amateur and otherwise,
Has anyone heard of this injury or experienced it themselves?
My upper right chest started hurting 6 months ago and got gradually worse. It would hurt when I started my swim warmup, but would not hurt after I warmed up. It got worse through the year and would hurt just by taking a deep breath. I stopped swimming 3 weeks ago and it is very slowly getting better, but not much.
I went to a sports medicine doc and he diagnosed it as an inflammation of the junction between the bony part of the ribs and the cartilaginous part. There is apparently some flexion at this point normally. His guess is that the repeated swimming motion has irritated it. He said to just rest and take ibuprofen.
Any better suggestions to speed up recover?
thanks,
Mark
Parents
Former Member
Yep, I have something very similar that has come and gone for 16 or 17 years, ever since a particularly rigorous fight during a karate promotion bruised the crap out of my ribs and sternum. To this day I can sometimes press on my chest and get a good crack out of it. The irritation flares up sometimes if I overtrain and can make simple breathing an annoyance. I usually just try to ignore it.
Then again, before you take medical advice from me you should know that something usually has to be hanging off before I see a doctor. You've done the right thing by seeing one; now follow his advice.
Yep, I have something very similar that has come and gone for 16 or 17 years, ever since a particularly rigorous fight during a karate promotion bruised the crap out of my ribs and sternum. To this day I can sometimes press on my chest and get a good crack out of it. The irritation flares up sometimes if I overtrain and can make simple breathing an annoyance. I usually just try to ignore it.
Then again, before you take medical advice from me you should know that something usually has to be hanging off before I see a doctor. You've done the right thing by seeing one; now follow his advice.
