Double slipped rib

A quick visit to the athletic trainer was time well spent.  After probably a year of pain in my spine I finally got it looked at.  The athletic trainer asked me a few quick questions and then proceeded to feel up and down my spine.  He immediately identified the area that needed to be adjusted.  The whole process involved the trainer standing behind me and me lifting my arm shoulder level with my arm bent, he pushed on my slipped rib while I pushed my elbow away from my body toward him.  He did it twice and before I knew it, I was pain free and out of there in a total of about 5 minutes.  I'm kicking myself for living with this pain for that long.

The unfortunate part of the story is that afterward, I lifted weights hard and popped the rib right back out again.  As I've been told by another swimmer, this will most likely be a chronic problem.  Awesome.

I feel better knowing exactly what is causing the pain, how to have it fixed and what types of exercises are causing it.  Knowledge gained... check