What is the cause of pain under the left rib? If the pain is on the ribs, the common reason may be costochondritis or soft tissue injury around the ribs, sometimes it is due to incorrect posture, resulting in poor stimulation, poor posture, and poor strength of the soft tissue, muscles, costal cartilage, and sternocostal joints around the ribs, or the joints of the thoracic spine and ribs, leading to soft tissue injury and pain, This is a common reason. If the rib pain is below the left rib, the abdominal muscles, external oblique muscle, internal oblique muscle, rectus femoris and other muscles may have soft tissue damage, sometimes cold, eating, injury and so on. If the pain is in the stomach, it is called abdominal flatulence. In the middle, the stomach is near the left. In fact, there is a spleen under the ribs. In the stomach, it is mainly the colon. In the middle, it is the small intestine. Therefore, the pain in this area may be caused by gastroenteritis or inflammation of the small intestine.