1. A garment for simulating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, comprising:
a thorax-constricting garment portion having a frontal abdominal-thoracic plate member with wearer-proximal and wearer-distal
surfaces, the thorax-constricting portion further having tensioning means operatively extendible around a wearer's thoracic-abdominal
circumference, or a portion thereof, and operatively articulatable with the frontal abdominal-thoracic plate member to provide
for application of constrictive thoracic-abdominal tension;
a diaphragm-impeding garment portion projecting away from the wearer-proximal surface of the frontal abdominal-thoracic plate
member, and operative with the thorax-constricting garment portion to simultaneously constrict expansion of a wearer's thorax
while impeding contraction and downward movement of a wearer's diaphragm.
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