Articles, tagged with "rib cage", page 1
25th October 2012
Dogs can easily become overweight, especially since we are sometimes too busy to really spend time ensuring they have an active lifestyle. While we’re at work, they hang out around the home because they don’t have much else to do. Combined with once-a-day...
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Author:
Maria Elena
14th February 2012
Why do singing lessons need to discuss the way to breathe properly? Isn't breathing just part of being alive and something that we do all the time without even thinking about it. While we certainly all breathe, not everyone breathes properly, and one of...
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Author:
Rick Rakauskas
29th June 2011
Star tattoos designs are one of the most popular types of tattoo seen widely inked on the people including celebrities. The reason for its popularity is caused by the fact that stars are more than a simple sparkle in the sky. They have multiple important ...
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Author:
Matt W.
19th June 2011
Music and dance are two elements of Jamaican culture that you should consider experiencing during your visit to the island. Many original dances in Jamaica are of African origin, and Jamaicans love to dance. The traditional dances of the island bear a str...
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Jamaicaadventuresecrets
05th May 2011
One of the smallest organs in our human body system, Gallbladder is yet an extremely important organ leading to fatal health conditions. Merely the size and shape of a pear, extending to a maximum length of 3 – 4 inch (7 – 10 cm), gall bladder is a sac li...
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Author:
johndy
03rd March 2011
With children, rickets is the most common manifestation and consequence of vitamin D deficiency, while with adults, the disease is known as osteomalacia. In the absence of vitamin D, calcium and phosphorus cannot be properly absorbed in the body which hin...
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Author:
Lynn Bost
05th January 2011
I was working with someone recently who had a great deal of back pain. She was lying on her side on the table and I was gently exploring the area where her spine connected to her ribs. "What are you doing" she asked.
"I’m exploring how your ribs move...
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Author:
Lavinia Plonka
17th September 2010
People spend a lot of time in the gym working their bodies out just to achieve that perfect washboard abs. But do they really know what the abdomen is?
The rectus abdominis
The Rectus abdominis or the abdominal muscles are the two pairs of muscles t...
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Author:
Ryanell Evans
20th August 2010
Back pains should be considered a serious aspect to care for. When these pains take place in the upper back, then it perhaps is a denotation of severe troubles in the respiratory system, particularly the lungs. Lungs are found in the rib cage adjacent to ...
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Author:
Kelly Love
04th August 2010
A person with cervical spondylosis has destruction of the joints and disks located between the bones in the neck. The swelling and collapse of the disk can place pressure on the nerves that pass between the bones of the neck. This can result in malfunctio...
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Author:
Dr. Mital John
21st May 2010
Pain in the underarm region is felt in the form of a burning or stinging sensation. It can be accompanied by numbness. This pain can shoot up to the shoulder and the hand as well. Underarm pain can be irritating and quit distracting. It can be controlled ...
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Author:
Sturat Michael M
11th May 2010
The skeletal system supports and gives shape to the body. Multiple bodily organs are safeguarded by hard substances, named as bones. Bones contain calcium and are quite hard that provide protection to the delicate organs in the body. Not only these offer ...
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Author:
Jamie Hanson
20th April 2010
Your cats kidneys are responsible for eliminating toxins and other waste products. They are an important part of good health and vital to sustaining life. These are only two of the reasons why it is important to recognize feline kidney infection symptoms ...
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Author:
Rob Hawkinis
18th February 2010
Liver problems include a wide range of diseases and conditions that can affect your liver. Your liver is an organ concerning the size of a football that sits just beneath your rib cage on the right surface of your abdomen.
Without your liver, you couldn...
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Author:
Dr. Sarkozy Mikal
08th August 2009
There are 206 bones in the human body, but this is not always the case. The number of our bones actually decreases as we get older as some of our individual bones fuse into a single segment. Bones serve a number of important functions - mainly the ability...
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Author:
CL