When the pain is getting worse after a week of hitting the ribs, the first thing to look at is whether symptomatic treatment was applied and the number of activities of the ribs in the chest was reduced within this week. If there is no symptomatic treatment and no reduction of activities, the pain may be aggravated by the lack of timely treatment and protection. You can apply oral medications and topical medications, such as Panax notoginseng tablets, fracture and contusion powder, and so on, and if the pain is severe, you can take painkillers like Fenbid orally. However, regardless of whether the pain is treated within a week or not, you should go to the hospital in time to check the chest X-ray orthopantomographs and bilateral oblique chest films to confirm the presence of rib fractures.