The third group, transversospinalis muscles, extends your head, cervical, and thoracic spine. They also bend your head, neck, and spine in different directions.

Lowering the thoracic support induces more long cervical and thoracocervical spine muscles to participate in cervical extension. Much higher strength test results than those in the present study have ...

Macheleder and colleagues and Sanders and colleagues made an important step toward understanding the contractual spastic muscle sequelae of a stretching force on the cervical-thoracic-scapular ...

2.3 Measurement setup 2.3.1 Spinal curvature Spinal curvature (combination of lumbar and thoracic) was evaluated using an array of fifteen optical distance sensors Class 1 laser (OM20-P0120.HH.YIN, ...

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, and it ...