Fractured back?

On Thursday, October 6th, 2011, our Hammond junior varsity football team played at Laurence Manning Academy.  This team was very big, strong, and fast.  Our defense could not seem to stop their runningback because he was so strong and fast.  We were told by our coach that they were going to be like this but we did not know that they were that good.  Our JV football record was five wins and one loss so we didn't expect a running back that was so fast.  Hammond's offense was also playing poorly so the combonation of all this allowed our team to start getting many injuries.  Nick, Cantey, Patrick and I all got hurt.  Nick fractured a couple ribs, Patrick almost broke his hand, and Cantey dislocated his shoulder.  In the fouth quarter, Laurence Manning ran the ball up the "a" gap and I went to make the tackle.  We hit each other very hard and fell to the ground.  I was almost knocked out when a player from Laurence Manning picked me up and asked if I was okay.  At this time, I was just in a daze and mumbled "yes" and walked away. I decided to stay in the game and my chest and upper back began to hurt more and more.  Eventually, my chest pains went away but the back pains didn't.  It continued to hurt, so I went to the doctor and he told me it was probably a pulled muscle and he gave me some muscle relaxer.  This medicine did'nt help and the pains are still here.  The doctor also told me that if it wasn't better by Monday, (today) then it could be something else such as a fracture. The sharp pains are still continuing so I will probably need to get it x-rayed.  This was a very rough game.