Paradoxical breathing causes the chest to contract during inhaling and to expand during exhaling. Here, we’ll look a why paradoxical breathing occurs, what can cause it, and how it’s treated.

The chest wall remained firm and the scar nontender. There was negligible paradoxical motion, the excursions in the central portion of the defect being less than 0.5 cm. between full inspiration ...

Disease processes that interfere with diaphragmatic innervation, contractile properties, or mechanical coupling to the chest wall can result in diaphragmatic dysfunction. 3 Such dysfunction, in ...

A flail chest occurs when a segment of the thoracic cage moves independently from the rest of the chest wall. A flail chest causes paradoxical movement of this segment of the chest wall – in-drawing ...