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Results 1 - 10 of 47 for Muscle
  1. Bones, Muscles, and Joints Video (Nemours Foundation)  
  2. Medications for IBS Video (International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders)  
    ... to use Back to the top Direct Smooth Muscle Relaxants Smooth muscle relaxants are not currently available for use in ... overall IBS symptoms than anticholinergics. The direct smooth muscle relaxants found to be effective include cimetropium, mebeverine, ...
  3. A network of specialized muscle cells is found in the heart's walls. These muscle cells send signals to the rest of the heart muscle causing a contraction. This group of muscle cells ...
  4. COPD: Breathing Exercises and Techniques Video (National Jewish Health)  
    ... breath and assure adequate oxygen to your working muscles. These breathing exercises have the added benefit of ... to help assure adequate oxygen to your working muscles and to prevent you from holding your breath. ...
  5. Guided Visualization: Dealing with Stress Video From the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Mental Health)  
    ... headaches or stomach aches. We might be feeling muscle aches due to the amount of stress that ... your heart starts racing, your breathing changes, your muscles will feel different, and it's in that instant ...
  6. ... of nerves that connect the spinal cord to muscles and sensory receptors. The peripheral nervous system is ... it, signals from the brain might never reach muscle groups in the limbs. Motor neurons are responsible ...
  7. Bone X-Ray (Radiography) Video (American College of Radiology) (Radiological Society of North America)  
    ... absorbs much of the radiation while soft tissue (muscle, fat, and organs) allow more of the x- ... views of bone, they provide little information about muscles, tendons or joints. An MRI may be more ...
  8. ... These include the brain, liver, kidneys, stomach, and muscles -- even the heart muscle. At the same time, veins, shown here in ...
  9. Chest MRI Video (American College of Radiology) (Radiological Society of North America)  
    ... heart) and myocardial infarct (scar in the heart muscle due to prior obstruction of blood flow). determine ... ribs, and sternum) and chest wall soft tissue (muscles and fat). assess for pericardial (thin sac around ...
  10. Peristalsis is a series of wave-like muscle contractions that move food through the digestive tract. It starts in the esophagus where strong wave-like motions of the smooth muscle move ...
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