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@Naiya-dyani So, fortunately for your character, caring for ribs is pretty simple:

Don’t do anything.

No, really.

Don’t exert yourself over much, but keep breathing deeply (to prevent pneumonia from liquid pooling in unexpanded pockets of your lungs), and avoid wrapping your torso too tightly. Otherwise, the body is actually really good about healing your ribs correctly, thanks to the tensile force of the rest of the ribcage / cartilage and muscle which holds that whole frame in place. Unless there’s a chunk of rib just free-floating in your thoracic cavity, there’s no need for a doctor to surgically reset any bones.

Assuming your character broke his ribs in front and not along the sides, using crutches would not affect or hurt the broken ribs, as crutches support the body under the axillary joints of your armpit (so your scapula / humerus > clavicle > spine is carrying your weight; ribs do not support any weight besides the muscles and ligaments directly attached to them.