The rib cage’s function is to protect the organs in the chest, including the lungs and heart. In between the rib bones are ...

a dome-shaped muscle that sits below the lungs and is our primary respiratory muscle. When the diaphragm activates as we inhale, the dome flattens and descends, which expands the rib cage and the ...

Engineers at UC San Diego have developed a novel wearable ultrasound device that enables continuous, high-resolution ...

It’s the oblique muscles — which connect the lower rib cage to the pelvis on each side of the body — that rotate and flex the trunk and spine. Rotation exercises strengthen the obliques and ...

Researchers have developed a compact, wearable ultrasound device that monitors muscle activity. Attachable to the skin with an adhesive and powered by a small battery, the device wirelessly captures ...

Flex your muscles, make everything as big as possible ... and you’re going to shoot them past your rib cage as hard and violently as you can, and it turns your body into a wedge, and the ...

In fact, it is their rib cage, and their spine ... So instead they rely on sheets of muscles within their shell to pump in oxygen through their mouths. That is, most of the time.