, a sports medicine physician at Orlando Health Orthopedic Institute in Florida. The reason for this, he says, is that when you cough the muscles around your ribs and in the abdomen contract as a way to create more pressure and expel air and any irritants in the lungs or airways. ...
Each surgery required more and more of the skin on the man’s upper back and neck to be removed. In May, during his fourth and most recent surgery, so much was taken that Ryan required a skin graft to cover the affected area. Surgeons used skin from the back of his legs ...