Question:
Hi All,

I will try to give as much detail about my injury as i can, I am curios about what happened.

I have got injured during a soccer game about 4 days ago. I am playing soccer once a week. And playing basketball on concrete twice a week (I am not sure if this is important but could be a reason of a pulled muscle). My injury is located on my back on the right hand side. The pain is right on my rib (first one from the bottom). I did not realize that i was injured until after the game. I have made a self test and the pain occurs if i were to suspend myself from my arms. So the injured area hurts if it gets vertically pulled with my body weight. Can this be a fractured or a broken rib? Or is it a pulled muscle? Can it be something else?

It hurts if i rub the muscles up and down in that area. Another interesting pain i have occurs when i turn my upper body clockwise. It feels like my muscles in that area is going underneath my rib and getting stuck there and that feels really painful. Then if i force to turn myself back to straight position, it feel like the stuck muscles pops out from underneath something and relaxes and that strong pain goes away.

I am palnning to go to the doctor soon and get a check up and x-ray. I am just curious if you have any educated guesses? I am worried that this could be very serious.

Thanks for your help,

Ari
Answer:
    I think you need to have a chest x-ray done soon. It could be any of the things you mentioned here. I don't think it's serious (right now) to the point of being critical but I do think you need to get in to see a doctor soon so that (if you have a broken rib) you don't end up with a punctured lung.