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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In many cases, your headache doesn’t actually start in your head. An expert reveals the surprising connection between the neck, shoulders, and headaches – and how complementary medicine can solve it.

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, ...

The trapezius is a large band of muscles across the back, shoulders, and neck. Trigger points are raised spots along a band of muscle. They can be caused by exercise, inactivity, or poor posture, like ...

On Wednesday, Jeffrey Beck, exercise specialist with the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Murray, will demonstrate exercises that will strengthen your trapezius muscles using a ...

After you’ve spent a long day hunched over a computer, the muscles in your neck and shoulders can feel like steel cables. Here’s a great self-massage move using yoga therapy balls (or tennis balls) to ...

If you’ve got a lump on top of your shoulder muscle, you have a good chance of it being a trapezius knot. This type of lump in the trapezius muscle — called a myofascial trigger point — is among the ...

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 new trend called “Barbie Botox” has gained popularity in the TikTok cosmetic surgery community as many people are getting the procedure done to elongate the neck and shrink the shoulders, in order ...

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 ...