Empowering Voices trustee, Cheryl King, demonstrates the costal breathing technique, which can help stammerers speak more confidently and clearly.

Deep breathing is highly effective in this respect since it not just provides benefits to your mental health, helping you with stress, anxiety, and depression, but with your physical health as well.

To catch its breath. Reptiles, birds and mammals, all considered amniotes, use costal aspiration where the ribs and vertebrae control breathing by expanding and contracting.

Costal breathing – sometimes known as ‘shallow breathing’ – is a relatively simple technique which involves filling the lungs with air and then emptying them just before speaking.

The Wannabe hit-maker disclosed that organisations such as The McGuire Programme teach costal breathing techniques to counteract speech blocks like stutter.

Breathing is key to the McGuire Programme. It uses a method called 'costal breathing' for speaking. The diaphragm is the main muscle in the body responsible for breathing. It is divided into two ...

Your intercostal muscles lie between your ribs. A strain in this area can cause pain and difficulty breathing. Here's how to treat it.

Early tetrapods used sprawling, undulatory locomotion, but likely still had a head-driven breathing system. The authors propose that rib movements and increased costal joint mobility evolved ...

Incorporation of the ribs into the turtle shell negates the costal movements that effect lung ventilation in other air-breathing amniotes.