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US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
(www.independent.co.uk)
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I have a very active, physical job, and I break a rib or two every decade or so, just to remind myself that I'm alive - it reminds you with every breath for a few weeks. I already had this decade 's break earlier this year.
So I know what it takes to break a rib, and what it feels like. I can't imagine the kind of force it took to break SIX ribs badly enough to cause internal bleeding. I've taken some terrible falls, and I've never hurt myself anywhere near that badly.
To cause that kind of damage to an unarmed person cannot be justified in any way. Surely they could have detained him without causing that level of injury.
And he was an innocent American citizen? I hope he sues the Federal Government, ICE, Holman, Noem, Trump, and the ICE Nazis who injured him.
Pay the man.
What do you do that you regularly break ribs? Like sports? Or do you bolster the weight of something with your torso? I've worked a not very intense physical jobs, but more physical jobs than customer service or office work, but I can't think of how one would keep breaking ribs
It's not that often, just once every ten years or so. I fell off the back of a truck once. A five foot fall onto your side on pavement will do it.
Once I did it chasing a duck so I could pick it up for my son at a big petting farm. I was chasing the duck, it juked around a tree, and as I juked with it, I realized I was about to mow down a grandma and her little grandson. So I threw myself out of the way, and went down hard. My son was about 5 then. He's 26 now.
This year, I fell pushing a small compressed gas dewar, and the wheel caught in a crack in the sidewalk, and we both went over, I fell on the tank, and broke a couple of ribs. There have been other times, too. I first did it as a teen on a Boy Scout trip. Like I said, about once a decade.
I don't even go to the doctor any more. I know what it feels like, and I know what he's going to do - nothing. I can do that without wasting my time.
I have realized that most of my injuries have been caused by moving too quickly. I am trying to measure my movements more carefully, and take my time. As I get older, it takes longer to recover.
A tip I was given as a teenager from an old medicine man/ massage therapist: Ensure that you are only bending on one axis at a time. Most injuries that he saw occured when someone was bending and twisting thereby causing stress on multiple axes at a time. I'm 45 and by heeding this advice, I have avoided injuring myself quite a lot. Tumbling classes also helps immensely, but you kinda need those as a toddler/kid.
Oh man do I have to keep you like this in mind. Way to often I find myself doing something difficult and repetitive cantilevered out and twisted. I'll suddenly realize it and think wtf am I doing?
Re: tumbling classes I think I got similar benefits from being bad at roller skating as a kid. I learned to fall gracefully and often, and tuck your hands close to your body so no one runs over your fingers.