Short version of injury, had a motorcycle hit the side of me. Went to ER day after, they said no broken ribs. Few weeks went by, not getting better, went to physical therapy for about 5 weeks 2-3 times a week. They claim everything was just out of alignment betwen back, pelvis, etc and that is causing me issues. Toward the end we got 1 rib to literally "pop" back into place or so it felt. Felt good for about an hour but after was in a lot of pain. Few weeks have passed since that and I'm still in a bit of pain and my side is very sensitive. Maybe another needs to get put back in place? IDK.. I want to start getting back to normal sports and activities but am concerned I may damage something more if I take another hit. So my questions are:
1. If I don't have a broken or cracked rib (by now it should be healed if I did, right?) what else could even be wrong? If something's out of place whats the risk other than it hurting?
2. I dont want to go back to the ER, it seemed useless the first time... so what type of dr should I look for? I called a few like sports drs and they basically said they dont deal with ribs. The PT i saw was kind of like a chiropractor/PT.. sort of a unique approach. A lot of different techniques, self massaging, etc.