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1/3/2012
Jean Kincaid
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What Causes the Pain You Experience from Fractured Ribs?



Your ribs have two key jobs:
    
  • They protect the organs in your chest.
  • They help you breathe by leaving space for your lungs to fill up with air while the muscle you use to breath contract.
The muscles used for breathing pull on the ribs. If you have a broken rib, breathing can cause you pain because of this tugging on the fractured ribs.

Flail chest is a serious problem that happens when three or more ribs are broken in more than one place. When you have a flail chest, the broken vicinity can't hold its shape when you breath in. This leaves less space in your chest for your lungs to open and air to flow in. It also makes it harder for the muscles to work, so  it makes for labored breathing.

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Category: Car Accidents

Labels: "broken ribs" "car accident" "chest pain" "flail chest" "fractured ribs"





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