Amitabh Bachchan injured on the sets of his film Project K

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan was injured on the sets of his film Project K while shooting in Hyderabad. In his recent blog post, the actor wrote that his rib cartilage broke and he suffered a “muscle tear to the right rib cage”. While he is at his Jalsa home recovering from the injury, experts revealed how a torn rib cartilage can be painful even when a person is breathing or coughing.

“Muscle tears and rib injuries are not uncommon and especially occur with high-intensity activities like lack of due precautions, poor posture or inadequate preconditioning during gym workouts,” Dr Aman Dua, Director, Joint Replacement and Orthopaedics, Fortis Escorts, Okhla, New Delhi, told indiatoday.in.

A rib cartilage getting popped happens when the cartilage attached to the last three pairs of ribs breaks and this results in severe pain. Due to the torn rib cartilage, Amitabh Bachchan also suffered a muscle tear to the right rib cage.