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Dislocated Ribs Heal

My last article told the story of how I dislocated my ribs.  This one continues to the cure.  🙂

It just wasn’t getting completely better so I ended up going to my colleague Janet who is an excellent massage therapist.  We took a lot of advanced training together and worked together, too.  She “surrounded the dragon” (the painful rib area) using finger pressure to relax tender muscles.

The dislocated ribs were mid-chest.  Janet pressed into the muscles in the upper ribs near my collar bones.  She also released (relaxed) the muscles on the sides of my back and spine.

But I just could not let her press into the painful rib joint at my breastbone.  I just couldn’t.  Way too painful!

And when she gently lifted my head Continue reading Dislocated Ribs Heal

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Pain From Dislocated Ribs

“Woman Breaks Her Own Ribs Crawling Through Cave”

That’s what I thought the headline would read.  It was my first time ever on a cave crawl.  When I got to the low ceiling and could no longer crawl on my knees I had to do the army crawl (belly crawl.)  That’s when I dislocated my ribs for the second time in 2 days.

I had done the same thing 2 days prior practicing this belly crawl on the living room floor but on the opposite side of my ribs.  That side was feeling somewhat better when I did it again in the cave.

I did this by cleverly (and incorrectly) placing Continue reading Pain From Dislocated Ribs

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