Background: Many adults experience bothersome neck/shoulder pain. While research and treatment strategies often focus on the upper trapezius, other neck/shoulder muscles may be affected as well. The ...

Muscles strengthened include the upper trapezius, levator scapulae, and the rhomboids. A common exercise for athletes and bodybuilders, shrugging develops the muscles on both sides of the neck along ...

Patient 1 was referred with proximal muscle weakness and scapular winging, suggestive of an inherited myopathy and was included in a whole-exome sequencing (WES) study. Patient 2 is the mildly ...

Our study shows a high prevalence of tenderness in several anatomical locations of the neck/shoulder complex among generally healthy adults with nonspecific neck/shoulder pain. Tenderness scores were ...