Rib Presence, Anterior Rib Cage Integrity, and Segmental Length Affect the Stability of the Human Thoracic Spine: An in vitro Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020 The effects of segmental length as well as anterior rib cage and costovertebral joint integrity on thoracic spinal stability have not been extensively investigated, but are essential for the calibration and validation of numerical models of the thoracic ...
Christian Liebsch, Hans-Joachim Wilke
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The rib cage stabilizes the human thoracic spine: An in vitro study using stepwise reduction of rib cage structures. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The stabilizing effect of the rib cage on the human thoracic spine is still not sufficiently analyzed. For a better understanding of this effect as well as the calibration and validation of numerical models of the thoracic spine, experimental ...
Christian Liebsch +3 more
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How Does the Rib Cage Affect the Biomechanical Properties of the Thoracic Spine? A Systematic Literature Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022 The vast majority of previous experimental studies on the thoracic spine were performed without the entire rib cage, while significant contributive aspects regarding stability and motion behavior were shown in several other studies.
Christian Liebsch, Hans-Joachim Wilke
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Effect of pelvic floor electrical stimulation on diaphragm excursion and rib cage movement during tidal and forceful breathing and coughing in women with stress urinary incontinence: A randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
Medicine (Baltimore), 2021 Background: The pelvic floor muscle (PFM) is associated with respiratory function. We investigated the effects of PFM training by pelvic floor electrical stimulation (PFES) on PFM strength, diaphragm excursion, and upper rib cage movement during tidal ...
Hwang UJ +4 more
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Non-invasive assessment of fatigue and recovery of inspiratory rib cage muscles during endurance test in healthy individuals [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Introduction Fatigue is defined as loss of capacity to develop muscle force and/or velocity that is reversible at rest. We assessed non-invasively the fatigue and recovery of inspiratory rib cage muscles during two respiratory endurance tests in healthy ...
Thiago Bezerra Wanderley e Lima +7 more
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Effects of manual hyperinflation with rib cage compression and endotracheal suctioning on arterial blood gas parameters in mechanically ventilated patients at a university hospital, Egypt [PDF]
The Egyptian Journal of Bronchology, 2021 Background Manual hyperinflation and expiratory rib cage compression are methods of chest physiotherapy. They are commonly applied but their value and their early utilization managing mechanically ventilated remain questionable.
Nahla Shaaban Khalil +3 more
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The expansion of the pulmonary rib cage during breath stacking is influenced by age in obese women. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 OBJECTIVE: To analyze in obese women the acute effects of the breath stacking technique on thoraco-abdominal expansion. DESIGN AND METHODS: Nineteen obese women (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m(2)) were evaluated by anthropometry, spirometry and maximal respiratory muscle
Jacqueline de Melo Barcelar +7 more
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Action of the diaphragm on the rib cage [PDF]
Journal of Applied Physiology, 2016 When the diaphragm contracts, pleural pressure falls, exerting a caudal and inward force on the entire rib cage. However, the diaphragm also exerts forces in the cranial and outward direction on the lower ribs. One of these forces, the “insertional force,” is applied by the muscle at its attachments to the lower ribs.
André De Troyer, Theodore A. Wilson
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Finite Element Method Analysis of Compression Fractures on Whole-Spine Models Including the Rib Cage. [PDF]
Comput Math Methods Med, 2019 Spinal compression fractures commonly occur at the thoracolumbar junction. We have previously constructed a 3-dimensional whole-spine model from medical images by using the finite element method (FEM) and then used this model to develop a compression ...
Nishida N +9 more
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3D spinal and rib cage predictors of brace effectiveness in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis [PDF]
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2019 Background Scoliotic braces are the standard of curve for management of moderate spinal deformities in pediatric patients. The effectiveness of this treatment method has been shown; however, the spinal and rib cage parameters, in the three anatomical ...
Saba Pasha
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