How to treat broken ribs

After rib fracture can be treated by the following methods: First, local intermittent cold compress treatment, 20-30 minutes each time, and again after 30-60 minutes interval, 6-8 times a day, can quickly relieve swelling and pain symptoms. Second, apply injury quick-acting pain relievers to the affected area 4-6 times a day for 15 days as a course of treatment. Third, adhesive tape fixation, using multiple strips of adhesive tape 3-5cm wide and 5cm long beyond the ends of the midline of the thorax, and attaching the tape strips to the chest wall at the fracture in a stacked tile shape when the thorax is at its smallest at the end of breathing, and external fixation of the chest strap can be used in elderly patients. Fourth, surgical treatment, multiple multiple rib fractures, select 1-2 ribs in the center of the active chest wall, clamp the embedded ribs with scarf clamp under local anesthesia and traction by pulley for 1-2 weeks, or you can choose surgical incision and internal fixation.