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Re: Rib Protection
Posted by 'Hootsman' on 26 Nov 2011 @ 18:55

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HootsmanJoined: January 2008
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I use to hurt my ribs every time I went out. I have a Tillet P1 and a Sparco protector, but the ribs still hurt no matter which one I wore.

Then I padded the bolts on the seat with some special foam used in gliders to absorb high vertical impacts, that helped quite a bit.

It wasn't until I changed Kart and could fit the seat into the supports without squeezing the seat in that the problem went away.

I have not had serious rib pain for 2 years now.

The other thing is not going back to soon after injury, when people say 6 weeks for ribs to heal, they mean 6 weeks. I use a simple method to decide if they are healed or not. If I push my fist into the ribs and it hurts and takes my breath away then they are not ready for racing. Wait a week, its quicker in the long run.

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Rib Protection by '77ctp' (21 Nov 2011 @ 15:25)

Re: Rib Protection by 'John' (21 Nov 2011 @ 16:10)

Re: Rib Protection by 'RobF1' (22 Nov 2011 @ 8:24)

Re: Rib Protection by 'Adstomko' (22 Nov 2011 @ 8:59)

Re: Rib Protection by 'hetherip' (23 Nov 2011 @ 23:12)

Re: Rib Protection by 'Hootsman' << You are here!

Re: Rib Protection by 'SimonS' (27 Nov 2011 @ 11:41)

Re: Rib Protection by 'joshMSW' (01 Dec 2011 @ 1:15)

Re: Rib Protection by 'DavyBoy' (04 Dec 2011 @ 20:23)

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