Your neck muscle anatomy fits into three categories, the anterior, lateral, and posterior neck muscles. These three muscles help your head move. Two major neck muscles, the trapezius, and ...

The tension in your neck may be causing your headaches. How to break the cycle. Feb. 18, 2008 — -- It's 2 a.m. and you're waking up in pain. You reach to your neck, and you can't move your head.

While the posterior chain runs from your neck down to your ankles, the focus is often on the glutes, hamstrings, and lower back. Strengthening these muscles helps reduce low back pain, improves ...

For example, the serratus posterior superior and the serratus ... think of their back muscles. Superficial muscles support shoulder and neck movements, and four major muscles fall into this ...

Neck pain is hard for most of us to avoid without taking preventative action. Between desk jobs, time spent sitting in front ...

Staring down at screens all day can strain the neck and shoulder muscles. Lying on your stomach on the floor, propped up on ...

Reflex spasm of the posterior neck muscles, which reduces mobility, shortly produces neck pain and occipital tension. When these signs and symptoms are present roentgenograms of the cervical spine ...

Most often, a pulled muscle in the neck affects the trapezius and the levator scapulae muscles. “The trapezius muscle is located on the posterior aspect of the thorax and neck,” says Gbolahan ...

Walk into any coffee shop, airport, or waiting room, and you will see people in the familiar pose — head down, eyes fixed on a handheld device. With prolonged use, they will likely start feeling ...