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“Chest pain can come from the muscles and bones, such as from a pulled muscle,” she says. This type of pain usually feels more dull and the area may even feel tender if you touch it, Dr. Ni ...
Poland syndrome is a rare congenital condition in which the whole muscle is missing, most commonly on one side of the body. This may accompany absence of the breast in females. The sternalis muscle may be a variant form of the pectoralis major or the rectus abdominis. [Submuscular and intramuscular surgical implants (similar to breast ...
Pectoral muscles (colloquially referred to as "pecs") are the muscles that connect the front of the human chest with the bones of the upper arm and shoulder. This region contains four muscles that provide movements to the upper limbs or ribs. Deep muscles of the chest, including pectoralis minor, serratus anterior, and subclavius (Gray 1918)
Cadaveric studies showed that the sternalis muscle has a mean prevalence of around 7.8% in the population, [7] with a slightly higher incidence in females. [1] The prevalence ranges from 0.5% to 23.5%, depending on the subpopulation [8] — it has been proposed that the possible reason for the sizable range could be the fact of the existence of small, ill-defined, or tendinous fibres which ...
A sports injury is exactly what Jack, now 18, was first told by his GP practice nurse when he first noticed a lump in 2023. His mother Katie, 51, remembered how the nurse came to this conclusion ...
Abdominal pain is one of the top reasons people seek medical treatment—and no wonder: It could be anything from a pulled muscle to a life-threatening aneurysm. Check out the 10 types of pain you ...
Muscle strain, pulled muscle, torn muscle: Two images of the same strain to the hamstring and associated bruising. One of the pictures was shot through a mirror. Specialty: Emergency medicine: Symptoms: Bruise, swelling, redness and soreness: Causes: Excessive stress and/or repeated injury on a muscle
The lateral pectoral nerve provides motor innervation to the pectoralis major muscle. [2] [5] Although this nerve is described as mostly motor, it also has been considered to carry proprioceptive and nociceptive fibers. It arises either from the lateral cord or directly from the anterior divisions of the upper and middle trunks of the brachial ...