Slipping or Floating Rib Syndrome?

The pain though usually dull can lead to intermittent sharp pains sometimes simulating a heart attack. Any young person who has a negative cardiac work up after having severe sharp chest pain with shortness of breath, has slipping rib syndrome until proven otherwise. There is no test that can definitively diagnose slipping rib syndrome. The best test is palpation and the reproduction of the person’s symptoms by a doctor that is farmiliar with this syndrome. Good Luck