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  • drtowfigh

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    September 21, 2017 at 3:24 pm

    The abdominal muscles do help with breathing. However, losing the force generated by the muscles, such as due to a giant ventral hernia, would not reduce lung volumes. I have not examined you, but most likely it is not related.