Good morning Doctors,
I recently went to my family doctor because of some rib pain that was preventing me from training. It would hurt to roll out of bed in the morning, hurt to reach overhead, etc. He said I likely have a rib out of place and to go to the chiropractor to see if they could reset it. He prescribed me 6 days of methylprednisone (this was completed last Monday) and then ibuprofen 800s 3x a day. I have gone to the chiropractor 3 times now, the first time he said it was moved back into place and said to take it easy and that I could do cardio and legs (squat not including in doing legs). The last two he said that my back muscles were really tense and likely pulling it back out of place. He gave my some stretches to do and told me to get a massage (covered by insurance) to help release the tension. I know that for performance, the data does not support either stretching or massages as being useful, but I’m wondering if you think that they would be useful for recovering from my “injury”.
I have not been back to the gym yet, but I do plan on going tonight to take it easy as I miss it and want to do something. I want to get back to my normal training as I was making some decent progress before all of this.
Thanks guys, appreciate everything that you do.