‘Rather than bending the neck forward or tucking the chin, the aim is to draw the head straight back over the shoulders, ...

Each side of the neck contains two triangular sections created by the major deep muscles. The sternocleidomastoid muscle separates the sections, known as the anterior and posterior triangles. Located ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether you slept funny, experience poor posture occasionally or are recovering from an injury, you’ve likely had a stiff neck now ...

Muscle twitches fall into two main types. There’s myoclonus, where a whole muscle or group of muscles twitch or spasm. Then ...

It appears that patients with tension-type headache (TTH) have relatively weak neck extension muscles, a new study shows. Researchers found that these patients are 26% weaker than controls with ...

The AltasBIOvib is a hand-held, battery-powered neck massager specifically targeted at an often-neglected area: the topmost vertebra in the spine, known as the C1 cervical vertebra, or the Atlas, ...

Women with cervical cancer who experience significant muscle loss during treatment die at six times the rate of those who maintain muscle mass, according to an international review of 23 studies ...

In order to assess any neuromuscular deficits present, it is of clinical importance to use reliable and valid assessment tools. Several performance tests have been developed with the aim of ...

The typical average adult head weighs approximately 10-12 pounds. But did you know that bending it forward at a 45-degree angle to look at a cellphone or tablet can dramatically increase your chances ...