Although it's usually associated with car accidents, any impact or blow that causes your head to jerk forward or backward can cause neck strain. The sudden force stretches and tears the muscles ...

While the human neck retains the basic design of our ... Since we use our hands to grab our food, we don't need strong neck muscles to move the head around. So, compared with most mammals our ...

Dr. Michael Greiwe, a surgeon at OrthoCincy, explained, "Thoracic outlet syndrome is basically a compression of the veins, from structures like the ribs or even muscles up in the neck area ...