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Summary: Learn about muscle groups with expert advice on neck muscles in this free massage video.
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Alexson Roy Alexson Roy has been certified and licensed as a massage therapist for over 8 years. Therapeutic massage is his specialty, and he is knowledgeable in yogic, d... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi, welcome back to Expert Village. So once we have applied effleurage. What we are going to do is we are going to focus on the individual muscles that kind of keep the neck elevated. So I just want to show you what kind the muscles are. You have your levator scapula. That is mainly connected to your shoulders and neck. It's all along here. Okay. It's probably one of the tensest muscles you have because that's the muscle that keeps your neck elevated. Okay. Now, you have your sternum mastoid, which is in the front, which if, a lot of people know, this is your sternum and it goes up to the muscle in your cheek that's call the mastoid. Okay. Then you have your upper trapezius, which is in the very back muscle here then a muscle in your back. Then you have a point, which is also a muscle, but it's really a point in the back of your neck, the base of your neck called the Occipital. It's the very base of the neck where the spine and the skull kind of meet. The spine goes into the skull. And then you have what is called a spleen. Now I'm going to talk about that one and the levator scapula together. But it's right, like maybe underneath the levator scapulae, right there. Most headaches are formed because of this muscle right here. It's so tight, okay, that the best thing to do is kind of just pull the levator scapulae up and go into the neck. So those are the main muscles of the neck.
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