The biomechanics of the thoracic spine and rib cage are crucial for understanding how these structures work together to support movement, stability, and respiratory function. Recent research has ...

The thoracic spine is located between your cervical and lumbar spines, and it serves as an attachment point for your ribs and for many muscles and bones. If it seems to you like your neck and low ...

Dogs have 13 paired ribs, numbered 1–13, which articulate with thoracic vertebra of the same number. The diaphragm arises from the ventral borders of the third and fourth lumbar vertebrae and ...

Eleven (10.5%) patients were identified to have neurogenic and arterial thoracic outlet syndrome with cervical ribs. One hundred percent of these patients had Roos type I and/or II bands.

Diagnosis of the cervical rib is simply made by a chest radiograph and cervical spine films ... and lysis of these cervical bands. Venous thoracic outlet syndrome, whether or not complicated ...