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 ...

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 ...

You don’t need to be told that back pain is a common phenomenon. No one we’ve ever met hasn’t struggled at least once in their life with a niggle or an ache, and the past two years have ...

Anatomically, since 1966, the transaxillary approach for first rib resection has been the least invasive and most effective of all approaches for thoracic outlet syndrome. However, in the early ...

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.