Build healthier habits this year with six simple micro-resolutions—easy daily actions that support heart health, blood sugar ...

Smog season tests the lungs every single day. Fine particles hang in the air and quietly irritate airways. Many people focus ...

Diaphragmatic breathing, also known as belly or deep breathing, is a technique done by contracting the diaphragm muscle to fill the lungs fully.

A chest X-ray can help support a diagnosis of COPD but cannot confirm it. In later stages of COPD, an X-ray may show lung hyperinflation. A CT scan can provide a more detailed image of lung structure ...

Seven months after being seriously injured in a deadly car crash, Charlevoix's Joe Gaffney was back on the basketball court, doing what he loved.

The phrenic nerve controls the diaphragm, the dome-shaped muscle that is primarily responsible for breathing. Contraction of the diaphragm expands the lungs and draws air into them. The phrenic nerve ...

Nirmala Subramanian regained mobility and confidence after a severe spinal injury through Yoga therapy at Arogyadhama. Post-surgery, she was bedridden but achieved remarkable recovery, walking ...

Chest pain when swallowing is usually due to problems with your esophagus, including esophagitis and motility disorders that affect the movement of food down the esophagus. Esophageal injuries caused ...

Objective: To investigate the concurrent validity, as well as the intra- and inter-rater reliability, of assessing diaphragmatic mobility by area (DM area) on chest X-rays of healthy adults. The ...

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