Other muscles, which support inhalation and exhalation [inspiration and expiration] besides the diaphragm, are called accessory muscles of respiration.
Most of them are located at the front of the ribcage. The intercostal muscles, muscles between the ribs, are an exception to this rough classification; they run all the way around the rib cage. Over working one of these muscle groups has many different consequences.
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