Anyone ever bruise a sternum before? I t boned a car last week on my ride. I’m fine but my chest if anything has gotten worse. Very tight in the morning rolling over in bed hurts. Daily activities I don’t notice it. Even coughing this morning wasn’t fun. Doctor didn’t notice anything when I got …

Never had a bruised sternum, but had bruised ribs last year. It sucked. I would suggest looking into acupuncture / dry needling for some relief. It made a significant difference for me with the ribs. I don’t buy into the holistic aspect of it, but the needles did seem to get the surrounding muscles…

Interesting. Getting pins in the back sounds painful let alone the chest. :laughing: I’ll look into though!

You barely feel the need.es going in….no big deal. Definitely worth investigating.

Your description sounds familiar, albeit in my case the pain was more severe. I had cracked ribs. You should go to a medical professional.

I bruised my sternum a while back on an ATV, and from memory the first week or two sucked, then it slowly got better. It’s a slow healing thing though unfortunately

In a former life I wrestled competitively. I had many, many painful injuries including a bruised sternum and a tear in the cartilage attaching the sternum to the ribs. That was one of the worst injuries, in terms of pain, I ever had. Hurt to breath, hurt to lie down, hurt to get up, hurt to poop, co…

Yes, on a few occasions unfortunately! Anything like that I normally get myself checked out by my osteopath. Quite often after an impact I find a bit of manipulation to get everything aligned speeds up the healing and/or avoids further niggles and complications down the line.

sometimes acute hairline fractures don’t show up in x-ray if they are small right away. might show up a few weeks later. CT is the best scan - but then they likely won’t do much. a bone bruise will take weeks to a few months to heal - but that will be a deep throbbing pain right in that area. some…

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cbounds September 18, 2024, 6:22am 6

I did I got checked by the EMT and then a doctor like three hours later.

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