Thank you for the responses! I do have a brace from before, but it never occurred to me to use it when practicing pole, great idea! I bet you fractured your rib on the pole, I know of girls who have bruised them. Problem is, I work at a club (bikini), and it seemed the girls were too competitive and catty to answer helpfully and advised me to never do any pole tricks again. It's so nice to find you all that take time to offer true support!
When I first learned to invert I think the problem was that I wasn't strong enough and ended up using the side of my body against the pole for support, which put too much pressure on the ribs. I'm guessing there are exercises I probably should have done to prep first. If anyone has any suggestions I'd still benefit, as well as other polers getting ready to invert (I'm new to SV and apologize if this has already been covered).
Licia:
It's weird because it feels like the pain is the bones, similar to when I fractured them, but prior to that I had pulled a rib muscle, and that also felt like bone pain, so weird! Now sometimes it kind of moves almost to my back, then back to the front of my ribs. Another weird thing is I've had it on both sides, and the fractures were just on the right, which makes me think it's not from that.
