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Suggest Remedy For Pain In The Chest Area

Can your lung get lodged between your rib cage? At times of bending over, coughing, etc. I get this sudden pain and it feels like my lung is stuck between a couple ribs, I have to move and bend and stretch just get it unstuck, and afterwards Im in pain... is that normal?
Wed, 2 Dec 2015
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it can be subsequent to injury.a fractured rib can get into lungs. it is an emergency and you can not manipulate the the rib entanglement. it is to be clinically and by x-ray pa view diagnosed. there can be pneumothorax hemothorax which requires immediate surgical interference to correct and treat the emergency.lit is a emergency.
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Suggest Remedy For Pain In The Chest Area

it can be subsequent to injury.a fractured rib can get into lungs. it is an emergency and you can not manipulate the the rib entanglement. it is to be clinically and by x-ray pa view diagnosed. there can be pneumothorax hemothorax which requires immediate surgical interference to correct and treat the emergency.lit is a emergency.