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 ...

Your mid-back rounds to accommodate the upward position of your shoulder blades. And your lower trapezius muscles weaken and strain against the upward pull, leading to backaches and pain around the ...

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 ...

Have you ever felt that nagging discomfort after a long day, or noticed your posture slipping as you scroll through your phone? The trapezius muscle, often overlooked, plays a crucial role in ...

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 ...

What is a pulled muscle? There are a lot of things we refer to as a pain in the necklike waiting for the cable guy to finally show. But if you have a pulled muscle in your neck, the pain can be ...