Bub wrote:Hea, if you read my posts from late summer or fall, I cracked my ribs surfing as well. Do you recall how you cracked yours? I'm pretty sure that mine were cracked just from paddling and arching my back upward putting all of the pressure onto one point on my ribcage against the hard board surface. It took about 6-8 weeks before the pain went away. I tried surfing again and re-agrivated my ribs. I'm going to try wrapping ribs next time under wetsuit. I'm a little gunshy though since I've injured ribs every time.
Thanks Bub. I've been reading your post about cracked ribs, very helpful, thanks. I actually don't know how I did it. I had been surfing for many days, more than two weeks in a row I think, because the surf was sooooo good, and I was really, really tired when I got up from the water that day. I started to feel pain on the ribs on my right side after a few hours. I thought it was overused muscles, but the pain increased and I thought it was a little bit too much pain, it hurt when I was breathing and I couldn't lay on the right side at all. So I went to the doctor and he said it's a crack in the rib. I thought it was from the board, a whipe out or a failed duckdive or something, but I don't remember beeing hit by it. And now when I read your post then it makes sence that it might be from too much paddeling. I have been a little bit sore just under my ribs sometimes, but never so bad so that it's been bothering me at all. And that's all. I've never felt anything else around the ribs.
It's been healing very slowly, and this week is the first time I actually feel that it's getting a little bit better. I can still feel it when I breathe, and I can lay on the right side if I lay in a certain position.
I have been surfing since march, and I've been surfing a lot since march. Almost every day I would say, except for the last time I was injured (from a fen and 15 stitches in the forehead), since I'm addicted to it and love it and just have to be out there. There were some good tips at your posts, and I also think that we have to build up the body slowly, make it stronger. Maybe also the muscles in the stomach and in the back to help to lift the upper body, and don't push it up with the help of the ribs? I don't know, I'm still just a beginner, but that's my spontaneaus feeling when I read some of the posts.
I'm not so worried about that it hurts right now, except for that it sucks beeing away from it (less patient and a pain in the *** for the poor people in mysurroundings). I'm more worried about my surf future. How are your ribs now? When was the last time you surfed?
I've been sitting on the beach watching my mates surfing, and today was the nicest, hottest day for ages, and I could just sit there watching...
