Hard Fall, Broken/Cracked Rib

[ParisApril]

4 weeks ago I slipped in the snow (in my Birkenstocks while carrying a paint tray and a coffee) and fell on the stairs. I whacked my mid back HARD, I couldn't breathe for a minute and when I did get my breath back I cried for a few minutes.

Anyway 4 week later and my back still hurts when I take a deep breath or if I sneeze. My chiropractor thinks I may have cracked or broken a rib and wants to know if I want X rays. My understanding of ribs is that they can't do anything to treat them anyway so why subject my body to the radiation from the X ray.

Would you get an X ray? Also any tips to speed healing would be greatly appreciated.

TIA.

[Violet2]

Hey I broke a rib once. Lunging for the phone at work. I was so hurt when my boss made fun of me because it was really painful.

Anyway, not much they can do. It hurt like heck for a month or so and then slowly got better.

The trick is to figure out how severe the break is, whether or not the bone is going to move or if it's been knocked out of its groove at all.

An xray may or may not show anything--it depends on where the break is, they don't show up so well on concave surfaces as I understand it.

V