The sternocleidomastoid is a large muscle in the neck that can cause pain behind the ear, down the side of the neck, or referred pain.

The suboccipital muscles directly influence the rest of the neck’s alignment, when they’re chronically shortened, they pull the head into forward posture, creating a cascade of compensations ...

Neck pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders, and globally, around 2,500 people out of 100,000 have some form of neck pain. In fact, by 2050, the estimated global number of neck ...

Nazarian, also a professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, told Popular Science that when neck knots—or myofascial trigger points—occur, “a specific portion of the muscle ...