If you break your sternum or your ribs, you can still move. It's going to hurt, but if you can cope with it, you'll do it.
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If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.
I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it.
It's so important to keep moving and don't buy into the myth. I say do anything you feel like as long as you don't hurt yourself or hurt anyone else. And things don't stop working in your body or your mind.
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.
I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
I've separated my shoulder and my collarbone; I've messed up my knee a million times. I've broken my foot in several places. I've broken my toe a bunch, broken my nose a couple of times, and had a bunch of other annoying little injuries, like turf toe and arthritis and tendonitis. It's part of the game.
There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into place again.