Absolutely this could have damaged the area. Often, with the wisdom of western medicine, costo is caused by trauma to the rib cage, something like whiplash. When it is caused by trauma it does tend to self correct within 4 months.
I used to be on a Yahoo forum for this (strictly western medicine) and we all agreed that if you have this condition, someone should just put you in a body cast for months so that you don’t even twist your torso at all, and allow it to heal.
But those people were desperate, and were going to a zillion doctors and having ribs removed, and cartilege scraped ...
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