I had a tearing feeling in my gut at the end of that week of wind a couple of weeks ago. At first I was afraid it was a hernia but upon feeling for a lump and not finding one, just chocked it up to being a pulled abdominal muscle. Yesterday as I was getting my hand stitched up I spoke to the ER doctor and he informed me that only hernias in the advanced stages form lumps, the hernias in earlier stages are just small tears in the abdominal wall and nothing is poking through yet. He did say that exercise is good for it though, especially...you guessed it, crunches or sit-ups!!! So kiteboarding SEEMS like the perfect way to cure it but he also warned that it would be easy to tear it worse if you fall hard... You may want to take it easy until you feel better Bryan...
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