Rib fracture in the elderly, usually take the following conditioning: 1, rib fixation band fixation, can effectively avoid rib fracture broken end of friction, obvious pain, affecting the quality of life, affecting the quality of sleep. 2, avoid shallow breathing, because after a rib fracture, the fracture broken end of the pain, resulting in dare not breathe, big breath when there will be obvious pain, so so this This will lead to pulmonary atelectasis in the lungs, affecting the normal respiratory function of the lungs, so avoid shallow breathing. 3, encourage coughing and spitting and expectoration, because the elderly phlegm itself is relatively large, coupled with the pain produced after the rib fracture, so do not dare to cough, coughing will lead to very severe pain, so many people will avoid coughing. But this long time, will lead to the lungs of the phlegm can not be effectively discharged, there will be lung infections, so we must encourage coughing and spitting phlegm. 4, must pay attention to avoid cold, keep warm, because the cold will lead to slow blood circulation, inflammatory metabolites accumulation, leading to further aggravation of inflammatory edema, is not conducive to the recovery.