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Bronchitis causes inflammation and swelling in the bronchial tubes, which connect the throat to the lungs. This inflammation makes it more difficult to breathe and can cause chest pain and pressure.

Heartburn is chest pain that occurs when stomach acid leaks out of the stomach and back up into the esophagus (food pipe). The esophagus is the tube that connects the mouth and stomach.

We’ve all been there: that nagging, heavy feeling in your chest that makes every breath feel like a chore. Dealing with mucus in your chest can be irritating. It is never fun to feel congested and ...

Breathe in. In that one simple motion, your diaphragm tightened up and moved down. This made your chest cavity bigger. Your intercostal muscles between your ribs tightened up, too. This made your ...

Dr. J. Sawalla Guseh II: A 54-year-old male athlete was evaluated in the cardiovascular performance program clinic of this hospital because of progressive exertional dyspnea and chest pain.

Last week we published exercises for the head and the neck. This week we’re tackling the shoulders and chest. To learn more about how sitting affects the body, and why these exercises are ...

One such comment reads, “…now it is time to boycott. since they only care about money to the point they remove a simple chest every now and then, the only way they will listen is through money ...

The new initiative builds on the Community Chest’s Share programme, which was launched in 1984 and encourages individuals and employees to donate a small amount of their monthly pay to charity.

Thoracostomies, and subsequent placements of chest tubes (CTs), are a standard procedure in several domains of medicine. In emergency medicine, thoracostomies are indicated to release a relevant ...

In most trauma systems chest tubes are placed in the hospital and not by EMS. For a tension pneumothorax, where there are signs of respiratory failure and hypoperfusion, a needle chest ...