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Women can control the muscles of the vagina to perform vaginal contractions at will. Vaginal contractions can enhance the sexual experience and pleasure for both parties during sexual intercourse . In a 1982 study, pelvic contractions of 11 women who manually self-stimulated to orgasm were monitored using an anal probe and a vaginal probe ...
The overactivity of the bronchioles' muscle is a result of exposure to a stimulus which under normal circumstances would cause little or no response. The resulting constriction and inflammation causes a narrowing of the airways and an increase in mucus production; this reduces the amount of oxygen that is available to the individual causing ...
Diaphragmatic rupture (also called diaphragmatic injury or tear) is a tear of the diaphragm, the muscle across the bottom of the ribcage that plays a crucial role in breathing. Most commonly, acquired diaphragmatic tears result from physical trauma. Diaphragmatic rupture can result from blunt or penetrating trauma and occurs in about 0.5% of ...
A chronic cough can be due to many things from asthma to post-COVID-19. Here's how to figure out why you can't stop coughing and how to treat it.
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If you can, go with someone you care about, so they get theirs, too. As much as we love our jobs and our patients, we would prefer not to see you in the hospital this winter, especially if your ...
With one-sided vagal nerve (CN X - motor component) damage, the soft palate will elevate and pull toward the intact side regardless of the side of the pharynx that is touched. This is because the sensory component is intact on both sides, but only the motor nerves supplying one side of the soft palatine and pharyngeal muscles is working ...
They can start (and stop) brutally. Or softly, by the feeling that a small pill is stuck, frictions around it, then the impression that a ball is stuck. When the spasms last long they can give the impression of a knife stabbed in the throat. The cricopharyngeal spasms can be, for instance, formally diagnosed as part of the more general condition.