Does a broken rib have an impact on later life

For broken ribs, after the impact on future life? First of all, it needs to be explained that if the patient is a simple rib fracture, active treatment, after the rib fracture healing, life is not affected. But if the rib fracture at the same time, accompanied by lung contusion is very serious, showing a lot of pleural effusion, gas accumulation. Later patients do not actively cooperate with the treatment, it is easy to cause pulmonary fibrosis, so affecting the patient's lung function, this is the rib fracture after the injury is more serious, the impact on future life. Treatment methods, for rib fracture most choose active conservative treatment, pay attention to rest protection, slowly fracture healing.