Originally Posted by redondoaveb

When I broke 3 ribs in my accident they told me to NOT wrap my ribs. The reason being is that it keeps you from breathing deeply which can lead to pneumonia due to fluid building up in the lungs that normally gets expelled during normal breathing. As a matter of fact, they had me do breathing exercises to make sure that didn't happen even though everytime I took a deep breath I felt like I was going to die.