Leg Press Injury

hey guys...

so i was at the gym thursday afternoon doing leg presses with a trainer...i was at the bottom of the movement, and i don't recall whether or not i was at the end of the negative or the beginning of the positive, but i felt something kind of tweak/pop/snap on the lower right side of my rib cage...it was a very strange sensation, and not immediately excruciating...i stopped leg presses, stretched out a bit, and we finished up the workout...the past two nights, however, i have been experiencing more and more pain on the lower right side to the point where i was up at 4am last night in pain...has anyone ever experienced an injury like this doing leg presses?...

i'm going to have it x-rayed tomorrow morning after work, but i was just wondering what everyone else thought...

thanks...

Were you at the absolute bottom? Did you have your thighs against your chest compressing the rib cage. Hopefully it's not a broken rib. I don't know if those are immediately excruciating or if the pains comes on slowly. You could've also pulled something attatched to the sternum. Best case scenario it's a pulled or attainted oblique or serratus. The pain would be as you described and will limit you for a while, but it will heal on its own. If the X-ray comes back good. It's likely a muscle strain. I've had them and the pain is as you described. Ice it and don't do anything to aggravate it.

The Dude said:

Were you at the absolute bottom? Did you have your thighs against your chest compressing the rib cage. Hopefully it's not a broken rib. I don't know if those are immediately excruciating or if the pains comes on slowly. You could've also pulled something attatched to the sternum. Best case scenario it's a pulled or attainted oblique or serratus. The pain would be as you described and will limit you for a while, but it will heal on its own. If the X-ray comes back good. It's likely a muscle strain. I've had them and the pain is as you described. Ice it and don't do anything to aggravate it.

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yeah...i was at the absolute bottom with my thighs against my chest...the pain i'm experiencing is more lateral than it is medial...getting out of bed is a challenge...twisting is bothersome...and bending over is painful as well...this pretty much means a month into trying to get back into lifting i'm already going to have to take some time off...how incredibly frustrating...

The bottom three pair of ribs arent connected to the sternum however they are connected to each other with cartilage. Itis possible to tear the cartilage or seperate the rib from it. Its called an osteochondral seperation. You can usually pin point the location each time you aggrevate it. Sometimes just breathing can hurt, other times its a twisting motion or sudden movement that aggrevates it.
Rest and ice is the only real treatment if this is the case.
Often times muscle spasms occur along with this injury so have some relaxers on hand