Pilates swimming is a beneficial exercise for promoting balanced muscle development around the sternum and heart. Lying face down with arms extended overhead, alternately lift your right arm and left ...

Thoracostomy tubes work by draining air or fluid from the chest cavity, and are most commonly used to treat pneumothorax or pleural effusion. Generally, a unilateral thoracostomy tube is ...

"Your thoracic cavity (chest cavity) is a space inside your thorax (chest) that contains your heart, lungs and other organs and tissues," according to ClevelandClinic.org. A thoracic contusion is ...

When a bleb ruptures the air escapes into the chest cavity causing a pneumothorax (air between the lung and chest cavity) which can result in a collapsed lung. If blebs become larger or come together ...