1. The injury was diagnosed as a strained intercostal muscle between the ribs. 2. In early July 2011, Tallet strained an intercostal muscle from a heavy sneeze. 3. Hundley apparently injured the intercostal muscle of his rib cage while stopping suddenly. 4. White flew home with an injured left intercostal muscle . 5. He authored a textbook on physiology, covering the thorax muscles, intercostal muscles , and pleural sac. 6. When neurons in the DRG fire, impulses travel down the diaphragm and external intercostal muscles . 7. The internal intercostal muscles have fibres that are angled obliquely downward and backward from rib to rib. 8. Other respiratory muscles include the external and internal intercostal muscles , the abdominal muscles and the accessory breathing muscles. 9. They supply the intercostal muscles and, by branches which perforate the Intercostales externi, the Pectoral muscles and the mamma. 10. Or it can have been a passing cramp of some intercostal muscle , which can occasionally occur without discernible trigger.