A trapezius strain is a muscle or tendon injury that limits movement and strength in the arms. It occurs when the fibers are stretched beyond their typical limit. In severe cases, it can lead to a ...

What Is the Trapezius Muscle? Trapezius muscles are large, paired, triangular muscles in the back of your neck and upper back. They extend down your back, but they’re mostly involved in the movements ...

The trapezius, trapezoid, or traps muscle is a muscle in the upper back. It stabilizes the shoulders and enables the neck to move. Certain stretches can help ease pain and keep movement flexible. The ...

The trapezius muscle starts right below the skull, runs down the neck and across the shoulders, and then continues down the spine in a “V” shape. It works to stabilize your shoulders and upper back.

YOUR WORKOUTS WON'T be balanced unless you train your big back muscles just as diligently as the ones that you see when you look in the mirror. Too many guys get hung up on making their chest, biceps, ...

A man known as “The Crooked Man” has spent more than 300 days training only one trapezius muscle to deliberately reject ...

Background: Myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) are hyperirritable spots located in taut bands of muscle fibres. Electrophysiological studies indicate that abnormal electrical activity is detectable ...

A 50-year-old woman arrived with progressive neck pain and stiffness, 3 years after a whiplash injury sustained in a motor vehicle crash. Previous diagnoses included cervical spondylosis and muscle ...

2 Department of Physical Therapy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 3 Department of Physical Therapy, Arcadia University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 4 Department of Physical ...

The chances are that you won’t hear much about the trapezius muscle, unless problems within this important area start to affect your horse’s way of going. The larger, cervical part of the trapezius ...