Neck muscle strains. Spending too much time bent over your laptop, smartphone, or book can cause muscle strains. Not protecting your posture can cause neck strains that can be painful or stiff.

Neck pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders, and globally, around 2,500 people out of 100,000 have some ...

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 ...

Having a stiff neck in the morning is often a muscle spasm, or contraction, known as a muscle strain. A neck sprain affects the ligaments, or tough tissues that connect and stabilize your bones.

Neck posture is maintained dynamically by the bones of the spine pulled into position by the muscles that attach to them. Although the neck is highly flexible, it is also very unstable.

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 ...