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Should i go to a chiropractor if i have healing posterior rib fracture?
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Tincture of time: Usually rib fracture will heal in time without therapy. Manipulative therapy to rib fracture in most cases will make pain worse and may displace rib fracture fragments.
Answered 4/20/2015
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