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234 | Costochondritis: What can you do?

The Optimal Body

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The First Trick Is Getting That Nerve to Calm Down

Even things as seemingly simple as like bending down to pick up a grocery bag because you're going to need to like flex kind of through the side of that rib cage or even opening a door. If the door's a little heavier than you might expect, it might cause some torque through our rib cage. And again, if you have active costo-kondritis, if things are flared up, that might elicit some of that pain. But we have to be cognizant and aware of the greater environment. For some people you might say, I'm not stressed, like everything's going fine, but what if you just journaled it or like wrote down your day to day?

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