How can you break a rib coughing?

[OwlHoot]

In the lift just now at clientco, and saw a permie I vaguely know from a meeting take a bottle out of a bag and examine it.

Turned out to be cough mixture, and his doctor told him he had broken a rib coughing!

I really shouldn't have laughed. He's German, and it is apparently quite painful. But how the heck can a cough break a rib?

[thunderlizard]

You must need either very weak ribs or very powerful lungs.

[cojak]

Woman breaks back whilst sneezing

[cojak]

muscles in spasm are very powerful things...

[NickFitz]

muscles in spasm are very powerful things...

[Lockhouse]

My mum partially deflated one of her lungs during a coughing fit and went on to get pneumonia.

There are loads of people with coughs around at the moment - I've had one for 4 weeks - the doctor said it can take two months to clear. On the train this morning there were half a dozen people that were coughing exactly the same as me.

[threaded]

My mum partially deflated one of her lungs during a coughing fit and went on to get pneumonia.

There are loads of people with coughs around at the moment - I've had one for 4 weeks - the doctor said it can take two months to clear. On the train this morning there were half a dozen people that were coughing exactly the same as me.

One of the many reasons I ride a bicycle: get away from those disease ridden commuters.

[cojak]

(I actually missed that..)

[Flubster]

My mother-out-law has broken 3 ribs through coughing over the last 10 years. In all 3 cases she's developed pleurisy which doesn't help. Nasty stuff.

[Lockhouse]

One of the many reasons I ride a bicycle: get away from those disease ridden commuters.

I cycle to and from the station.....errr...