You are at your family reunion playing football when your uncle takes a hit to his right lateral thorax and is in pain. He asks you if you think he has a rib fracture. You are in a very remote area. What would your next step be?

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The area involved in the injury will of course be tender. If you press in an area remote to the injury, but over the same bone which may be involved, you can produce tenderness at the site of injury. This would indicate that there may be a fracture at the lateral ribs. Fortunately, this maneuver did not reproduce pain remotely, and your uncle simply sat on the sidelines for the rest of the game.

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