What’s the best way to deal with a chest injury that hurts when you cough?

Chest injuries have two causes of pain when coughing, one is local soft tissue injury, one is rib fracture, mainly choose drug treatment as well as surgical treatment. 1. Local soft tissue injury: local soft tissue injury leads to oozing and subcutaneous bleeding edema, which is easy to cause obvious pain when coughing, you can choose drug treatment. For example, if the pain is obvious, you can choose ibuprofen, diclofenac sodium enteric coated tablets and other drugs according to the doctor’s instructions. In addition, you can also take local physical therapy, such as local hot compresses, infrared lamp irradiation. 2. Rib fracture: If the chest suffers a serious impact, it may lead to rib fracture, at this time in the cough will also lead to pain aggravation, generally need to be examined by imaging, and then do the bandage fixation, if it is more serious, but also need to do the incision reset fixation. In order to get treatment for chest injuries, you need to determine the extent of the disease, and it is recommended that you go to the hospital in time to receive examination and treatment.