upper ab injury not found by cat/xray with swelling upon upperbody movement

[dragondame]

I fell on my back/ tile floor/ kitchen like a backwards bellyflop: concussion, in ten days I gained 10lbs+10'' in ab area/ felt like bruised inside. Many doctors/ no disease-tumors-fluids. Upon moving upper body rib area swells muscle(rectus ab?) hurts, breathing difficult. Continue to add inches to ab after 6 months 1000 cal diet since 1st month.

[injuryupdate]

I would not be surpised if you had an unnoticed rib injury, such as a rib cartilage fracture that wasn't healing. I think these are not uncommon but are very frustrating to treat. Some case histories have been published in the medical literature, e.g.:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract

or

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract

The further difficult problem is how to treat a rib fracture that isn't healing. Cutting the rib out seems drastic, whereas there aren't many surgical options for forcing a rib injury to heal.

[dragondame]

what is a NHS hospital? What doctor do you see for Musculoskeletal? Is there a forum where you can speak/meet with more than one field of med at a time for research purposes?

[injuryupdate]

what is a NHS hospital? What doctor do you see for Musculoskeletal? Is there a forum where you can speak/meet with more than one field of med at a time for research purposes?

If you are asking about the NHS it sounds like you are probably in the UK. Musculoskeletal problems are handled by a few different specialists, including sports medicine specialists (who are prominent in Australia and starting to become recognised in the UK), orthopaedic surgeons, rheumatologists, occupational and rehabilitation physicians, and in the USA there is a specialty called physiatry. In Australia and the UK, sometimes physiotherapists, even though they aren't doctors of medicine, can often be excellent diagnosticians. I'm hoping more people start using injuryupdate as a forum to discuss difficult problems, although there is no substitute for seeing a good doctor in the flesh!