[Closed] Cracked ribs and riding ?

Wondering how long to stay off MTB ? I'm supposed to be going to Cairngorms weekend after next for a few days riding.... hopefully a combination of pain killers and MTFU will see me right ? Experiences ?

Expect random bounts og agony, pain when things press on it etc. don't fall on them either.

TBH I'd sack it all off for some proper rest and try a ride next week to test it out.

It was around three weeks before I managed a rather sedate commute into work. Parts of that ride made me wince.
I also had a track session booked and was very glad I'd decided to sack it off.
I'd be cancelling a trip to the cairngorms if I were you.

3-4 weeks off the bike when I cracked my ribs. Probably 6 weeks before I couldn't feel anything.

ride up the street and Jump up and down the kerb a few times, then come back and tell us how it feels.

😆

Not a chance.

Just back myself from the same ( 6 weeks ago)..four weeks saw me back on the bike but if I had fallen on the same spot again I would have been in real trouble.. still not 100%..
I had to decide which risk factor was worse for my ribs ..falling again or having a knife sticking through them from the missus for being such a grumpy bastard due to lack of riding ..

General advice is to listen to your body, if it is too sore then don't do it.

PS - Speaking as somebody who is fairly clumsy and always seems to land on his ribs, it will be too sore 😉

thanks all, saw the Doc earlier ( i was going for something else anyway), he had a poke, made me squeal a bit and reckoned one or 2 cracks and see how it goes over the next week...

If they are cracked enough to show on an x-ray you wouldn't be considering it.

When I did mine it was painful to breath.

More so if you crash and land on chest again youve already weakened them.

5 weeks here since I badly bruised mine. As always I should have rested more and they're still sore. I found that stopping myself turning (or trying to) in my sleep stopped me hurting myself and making things worse, strategically placed pillows helped. Fingers crossed for you for the Cairngorms but I suspect you might be pushing it.

I did similar to you last year and did a trip to the Lakes a week afterwards - it was fine after I warmed up a little. Only one way to know though, get out for a test ride!

I cracked one or two when I fell onto the edge of the wooden pump track at the bike show a few years ago. Took a few weeks before I was doing much with intensity, but was still able to commute OK.

When I broke five and my sternum, walking was hard enough! 😥

It's self-limiting, take paracetamol 1000 mg x4/day and see how you feel. When it comes to hard breathing, you'll either notice and wince, or not.

If they are cracked enough to show on an x-ray you wouldn't be considering it.

Agree with this, depends how badly cracked they are. As said above, listen to your body 8)

yeah, saw doc but wasn't going to bother with x-rays and he agreed, so it's suspected, not 100%. Full of cocodamol now and feeling a lot less sore !

Fell out of a tree many years ago and landed on a rock. The cracked ribs were painful but it's the torn intercostal muscles which seem to cause the most pain and take the longest to heal.

I was "lucky" because I also broke my wrist so cycling was out of the question. Still played a gig the next night though 🙂

torn intercostals, yes, did that in a big crash in Dec 2013 which resulted in ambulance, hospital rebuilt face by plastic surgery 🙁 Still hurts quite often...

Find a smooth tarmac road route in Scotland instead. 😉

^^^^ aye, but I am going with a group and wanna ride choice cuts incl. Lairig Ghru, Cake or Death, Burma Rd and a few more 🙂

I had broken my ribs in spring last year, a week or so before in was due to do a trail ultra marathon.

Sacked the run off but went on a gentle 2 day cycle tour round Arran instead. By the evening of the Sat (30 miles in) I was near passing out with pain. I have never experienced pain like it - luckily I managed to beg the campsite owner for a couple of tramadol which got me back to the ferry.

Never again.

Never again

Pretty much this. Give your poor old body a bit of recovery time or you'll end up an arthritic mess like me!

Far better to sacrifice a wee bit of outdoors time now so you can enjoy lots if it in yer dotage!

cheers folks, going to have a week off all exercise and see how it feels before deciding on it. Thanks.

Goofing around with youngest (11) on Saturday and he side tackled me with a resounding crack and that horrid feeling in right ribs

Heard it. 🙂

Fell off AGAIN?

....and six weeks. Don't sneeze. Really. Don't.

hey PP, not a bike this time, honest Guv 🙂

Don't sneeze. Really. Don't.

Seconded

 

Don't sneeze. Really. Don't.

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aye, very good 🙂

Six weeks of pain, six months of aching here.
You've broken bones in your chest, they won't fix in a few days or weeks. Time for a bit of rest and reflection.
Alternatively, you could go to the Cairngorms damage them even further and still be suffering by Christmas. Your choice, but I would go with the STW collective and recommend you rake it easy.