Broken ribs

[darkdiver211]

I broke the 5th and 6th ribs Tuesday, how long before I can dive?

[Superlyte27]

When the pain goes away. I had a student that was recently out for about 2 months. First dive back with LP85's he was fine for the most part. Still a little bit of minor pain, but tolerable. We dove for two days straight and he seemed to be ok.


*But you should probably ask a doctor.

[JerseyJersey]

My son was also out for about 2 months with his.... agreed on the doctor part....

[JamesK]

First let me say, sorry to hear about that. Hope you get to feeling better soon.

Second, I am no doctor but play one quite frequently. A buddy of mine broke two ribs diving with me on a violent shore dive when he got tossed in to some rocks. It took him two months to get back in the water. The doctor told him, when the pain goes away, and you feel like you can do it again, wait two more weeks.

[darkdiver211]

Thanks folks, my Doc also said when I feel like it but I trust you guys when it comes to diving.

[LiteHedded]

since it will only hurt when you breathe you should be good to go if you hold ur breath.

took me close to 6 weeks to be pain free last time

[FW]

I have never had any broken bones (knock on wood). However just because you don't feel pain, that doesn't mean the bones are healed. The last thing you need is hauling heavy tanks with partially knitted bones, and separate them again.

I like the advice, wait until you feel no pain, and wait two more weeks.

[darkdiver211]

I have never had any broken bones (knock on wood). However just because you don't feel pain, that doesn't mean the bones are healed. The last thing you need is hauling heavy tanks with partially knitted bones, and separate them again.

I like the advice, wait until you feel no pain, and wait two more weeks.

The way they feel right now you have given good advise Forrest.

[darkdiver211]

Wonder if I can sidemount a set of al 6's lol

[cavemark]

A couple of years ago I suddenly started feeling pain after dives. It took a few days of diving to come to the sudden rememberence that the pain was in the exact location that I had been slammed by someone's shoulder during a game of ultimate frisbee a week or two before. I thought that somehow I had been breathing deeper than normal. Turns out I had a cracked rib. No one said anything about stopping diving. I just figured that it was finally healed when I could dive pain free, somewhere around 8 weeks after the collision. Might have been sooner if I had laid off diving for a month.