[gotHEARTfighter]

Originally Posted by VegasFighter

naw its nothing unbearable. it doesnt hurt that bad unless im bending, or moving.. it doesnt feel like it'll take long. I feel like i can train the way it is, but i'll mess it up more. It feels like a few days off would be good.

I trained 4 days in a row this week, and usually only train 3x a week. i dont know where the extra motivation came from.

thanks guys, advice heeded

if you have insurance get it checked out, other wise take it easy. man that guy said he took a month off, i would fuckin die. i've been out ofr a week because of ear surgery and im goin nuts. better be safe than make it worse bro

[DMcKayBJJ]

Sorry to be a pain in the ass, but the classic defintion of a "bruise" implies that there is visible discoloration in the skin from an underlying soft tissue injury. This is most commonly achieved when the area experiences direct, traumatic IMPACT-type force, such that blood vessels break in the area. This leads to leakage of blood and the resulting bruise/contusion. The blood breaks down, changes color, gets reabsorbed, blah blah blah...

Most of you guys have experienced muscle/cartilage/tendon (i.e. "soft tissue") damage (a.k.a. "strain") from NON-IMPACT forces on the thoracic rib cage. It is most commonly due to the wrenching and twisting forces that we place on our rib cages, that are inherent with grappling.

In some respects, it is true that it would be better to experience a fracture of a rib than to have certain types of soft-tissue strain in the rib cage.

Anybody who has actually had a broken rib (and confirmed by x-ray) will tell you that the pain is typically different in quality and much more intense than the vast majority of soft-tissue rib cage injuries...

[Ghostrider]

A Doctor checking it out is not bad advice. they usually give me some type of muscle relaxer which I can get without visiting the doctor anyway. My ribs are somewhat sore right now. I will play it by ear.

[Rear NakedChoke]

I took a header off my dirt bike last week(8 days ago.) and it still hurts like hell. The worst is laying down I haven't slept proplerly in a week can anyone tell how long it will take from past experience. During the day I can live with the pain but the pain of laying down coupled with the lack of sleep is starting too get to me.

Any advise on how some slept(in a chair/ waterbed none painfull position anything) or how long it took to heal from person experience will be great appreiciated

[SuperSuperRambo]

Originally Posted by VegasFighter

naw its nothing unbearable. it doesnt hurt that bad unless im bending, or moving.. it doesnt feel like it'll take long. I feel like i can train the way it is, but i'll mess it up more. It feels like a few days off would be good.

I trained 4 days in a row this week, and usually only train 3x a week. i dont know where the extra motivation came from.

thanks guys, advice heeded

Sounds like you bruised it. I did the same thing a month ago or so, kept me out of a tournament. It should heal on it's own if you take it easy for a couple of weeks. No rolling for about a week, then ease back into it slowly. I remember it only hurts when you bend and twist a certain way, or put pressure on the spot, right?

[eclipse]

i had a bruised rib or a pulled muscle or some torn cartilidge in the back lower side of my ribs somewhere and it hurt for months.

after heavy training sessions it hurt to cough and take deep breaths in. but it wasnt bad enough not to train through, and eventually it just went away completely, it lasted a long long time tho

[Rush_18]

i cracked mine and i kept going to training just sucked it up, the doc said its not gonna kill me so if i can manage to handle the pain its ok