Named the Valsalva maneuver, after the 17th century Italian anatomist who described it, the trick is the same used by air travelers and skin divers to clear their ears on descent. It also has much ...

After a forced expiration, an attempt at inspiration is made with closed mouth and nose, whereby the negative pressure in the chest and lungs is made very subatmospheric; the reverse of a Valsalva ...

Causes: When atmospheric pressure changes or you change altitude, the pressure change can cause your ears to clog or "pop." Extreme changes may injure your ... Pinching your nose and swallowing ...

Recently, we encountered 5 patients with angina pectoris who discovered that they were able to terminate . . . From the Cardiology Service, New England Medical Center Hospitals, and the ...

This is an old trick swimmers often use to remove water from their ears. The method is simple: breath in deeply, then close your mouth and gently pinch your nostrils shut. Very slowly, blow the air ...

The skin in your ears has pores that can get blocked due to the build-up of body oils, sweat, and dead skin cells. The formation of a pustule (pus-filled pocket) can cause swelling and redness.

A listener wrote to A Moment of Science7 with this question: "When traveling by plane what makes our ears pop, and what is it exactly that pops?" Most of us are familiar with this phenomenon of ...

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