Coughing Causes Side-Stitch and Back Pain

This past week I’ve been dealing with allergies, sinuses, a post-nasal drip, and a HORRIBLE cough. All the coughing has caused the muscles in-between my ribs to rapidly expand and contract, causing spasms all along my back and rib cage. Fortunately, this is easy enough to fix.

It may not seem logical, but there are spasms that are on the front of your body that causes a strip of pain right across the center of your back, and also your low back. When you’re coughing like I have been doing this week, spasms form in the front, as I said, between your ribs.

I was having pain across the middle of the back and this morning so I checked, and sure enough, there was a spasm exactly where the red circle is located at the rectus obdominis. There are other points in the same general area, and they will help you if you are feeling a side-stitch pain, which feels like someone is pushing a needle in between your ribs every time you breathe in.

This simple treatment helped me today, and it’s helped a lot of people who have side-stitch pain, especially runners, or any endurance athlete. If you know either an endurance athlete, or someone who has been suffering from bronchitis or a bad cough, please share this blog with them, it will really make a difference.

Wishing you well,

Julie