Don't make the mistake I did of NOT wrapping your ribs so they are aligned correctly when they eventually fuse back. I now have a huge lump in my rib cage where a broken rib fused back offset by about a half inch. I had read that wrapping can cause pneumonia because it can inhibit breathing, but I think that would only be if you wrapped too tight. The worst thing for me was every morning for about 2 weeks, there would be a partial fuse at night, and then when I woke up, it would re-break!