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Fibromyalgia and headaches The frontalis muscle is part of the broad musculo-fibrous layer of the occipito-frontalis muscle, which stretches across the forehead, top and back of the skull. The splenius capitis muscles are wide bands that run from the back of the skull at the sides to the upper vertebrae. Splenius cervicis muscles are thinner muscles connecting vertebrae. fibromyalgia.ncf.ca /dsheadac.htm   (1944 words)

Diaphragm (anatomy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the anatomy of mammals, the diaphragm is a shelf of muscle extending across the bottom of the ribcage. The central tendon of the diaphragm is a thin but strong aponeurosis situated near the center of the vault formed by the muscle, but somewhat closer to the front than to the back of the thorax, so that the posterior muscular fibers are the longer. The sternal portion of the muscle is sometimes wanting and more rarely defects occur in the lateral part of the central tendon or adjoining muscle fibers. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diaphragm_(anatomy)   (1433 words)

Torticollis In 15 cases we operated on the same muscles as in the first procedure, in 5 patients new muscles have to be denervated during the second procedure due to a progression of the dystonia. Muscle relaxants were not given because the different nerve branches have to be identified by monopolar stimulation. As this muscle sometimes may be innervated additionally by branches of the spinal roots Cl and C2 or by recurrent nerves, leaving the trapezius branch of the spinal accessory nerve, the procedure only is terminated by resecting these branches as well. www.uni-ulm.de /klinik/neurochirurgie/themend/Torticollis/body_torticollis.html   (2064 words)

Chapter 40: Muscles, vessels, nerves and joints of the back The vertical muscles on the posterior aspect of the neck are bandaged by the splenius muscles, which ascend obliquely from the thoracic spinous processes and insert into (1) the mastoid part of the temporal bone and the superior nuchal line (splenius capitis) and (2) the cervical transverse processes (splenius cervicis). The semispinalis, so called because it extends chiefly along the upper half of the vertebral column, is responsible for the longitudinal bulges on the posterior side of the neck on either side of the median plane. The chief flexors of the vertebral column are the prevertebral muscles, recti abdominis, iliopsoas, scaleni, and stemomastoids. www.dartmouth.edu /~humananatomy/part_7/chapter_40.html   (3790 words)

Neck muscles The deltoid muscle moves the humerus bone and is used to raise the arm outward from the side. The muscles run upward and come together in the middle of their course (both pieces of the muscle lie side by side), but do not actually touch and are inserted in the front of the hyoid bone. The rectus capitis muscles are small triangular muscles that extend from the cervical vertebrae and insert in the occipital bone at the base of the skull. www.american.edu /adonahue/m7neck.htm   (1499 words)

Body and Breath - Answers Muscles are generally located bilaterally, crossing the midline only rarely as in the case of skeletal muscles in the upper esophagus. The semispinalis muscle pulls the head to the rear and counteracts the effects of gravity, which in general pulls the head forward. The muscles on the front of the neck are inactive except for serving as antagonists to the muscles on the back of the neck, the hamstrings are not under stretch because the knees are fully bent, and the ankle extensors are passive. www.bodyandbreath.com /answers052002.htm   (1212 words)

Back muscles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20) The external oblique is a large, thin sheet of overlapping muscle that runs along the side of the torso and partly on the front from the lower ribs to the rectus, the pubis bone, and the iliac crest of the hip. The muscles extend from the spine to the edge of the scapula (shoulder blade). The serratus posterior superior is a thin, flat, quadrilateral muscle that extends from the neck to the third, fourth, and fifth ribs. www.american.edu /adonahue/m5back.htm   (1739 words)

Asghar Rezasoltani, PhD; Jari Ylinen, MD; Veikko Vihko, PhD Later, a significant association between quadriceps muscle thickness and maximal isometric force of knee extensor muscles was reported in both males and females by using a real-time ultrasonography device [10]. The levels of the correlation between the MLD of the muscle measured in relaxation and the cervical extension force at 100 percent MVC was r = 0.73 (p = 0.09). The simultaneous measurement of muscle force and muscle size can be of special importance in gaining a lucid understanding of the action of the muscles in such a complex structure as the cervical spine. www.vard.org /jour/02/39/3/reza.htm   (2696 words)

UAMS Department of Anatomy - Muscle Tables a muscle of inspiration; an important landmark of the neck; it is located between the subclavian vein and the subclavian artery; the roots of the brachial plexus pass posterior to it; the phrenic nerve crosses its anterior surface a muscle of respiration (inspiratory); it is the longest of the scalene muscles is internal abdominal oblique muscle's contribution to the coverings of the spermatic cord and testis; the cremasteric reflex may be elicited by stroking the medial thigh (where the femoral branch of the genitofemoral n. anatomy.uams.edu /anatomyhtml/muscles_alpha.html   (11138 words)

Glossary.22.- torticollis, tremor, tumor & tympanum The space bounded by the anterior belly of the omohyoid muscle, the posterior belly of the digastricus muscle, and the sternomastoid muscle. Triangle bounded by the upper border of the clavicle, the posterior border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, and the anterior border of the trapezius muscle. The triangular region of the neck, bounded by the inferior border of the mandible, the stylohyoid muscle and the posterior belly of the digastric muscle, and the anterior belly of the digastric muscle; it is one of three triangles included in the anterior triangle of the neck. www.kneelsit.com /glossary/glossary22.html   (1415 words)

ASB: VARIATIONS IN NECK MUSCLE FASCICLE LENGTHS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20) The muscles of the neck generate head movements and maintain the stability of the cervical spine. The muscles included in this analysis were sternocleidomastoid, longus capitis, scalenus (anterior, medius, and posterior), trapezius, splenius (capitis/cervicis), semispinalis (capitis/cervicis), rectus capitis posterior major, rectus capitis posterior minor, obliquus capitis superior and obliquus capitis inferior. Certain muscles which are commonly considered to have similar functions were found to operate on very different portions of the force-length curve. asb-biomech.org /onlineabs/abstracts96/vasavada.html   (1039 words)

Bruce C. Jayne Publications Red and white muscle activity and kinematics of the escape response of the bluegill sunfish during swimming. The effects of speed on the in vivo activity and length of a limb muscle during the locomotion of an iguanian lizard, Dispsosaurus dorsalis. In vivo muscle activity in the hind limb of the arboreal lizard, Chamaeleo calyptratus: general patterns and the effects of incline. www.biology.uc.edu /faculty/jayne/bcjpubs.htm   (857 words)

[No title] The pia mater forms two structures within the vertebral canal, the ____________filum terminale___________, which runs superior to inferior, and the _______denticulate ligaments___________, which are situated lateral to the spinal cord and lie in the coronal plane. At the level of the pectoralis minor muscle, the medial pectoral nerve is ____________lateral___________ to the lateral pectoral nerve. The lateral pectoral nerve pierces the pectoralis minor muscle and innervates both pectoralis major and pectoralis minor muscles. www.uhmc.sunysb.edu /anatomy/HBA521oldexams/dexam102.doc   (1466 words)

Headaches Due to Myofascial Trigger Points The frontalis muscle is part of the broad musculo-fibrous layer of the occipito-frontalis muscle, which stretches across the forehead, top and back of the skull. The spillover pain can be from the front of the throat under the chin along the line of the jaw, much worse under the ear, and continuing to extend upward and backward in a diagonal nearly to the back of the head. The splenius capitis muscles are wide bands that run from the back of the skull at the sides to the upper vertebrae. www.fmscommunity.org /headachestrps.htm   (1953 words)

Muscles Neck For example: the trapezius muscle is shaped like a trapezoid; the thyrohyoid muscle originates from the thyoid cartilage of the larynx and inserts onto the hyoid bone; the levator scapulae muscle elevates the scapula. Now advance down to image #60 and image #61 and observe that removal of these reveals two muscles which are deep to them: identify the sternothyroid muscle from the sternum to the thyroid cartilage and the thyrohyoid muscle from the thyroid cartilage to the hyoid bone. This is actually considered a muscle of the upper limb, since its function is to elevate the scapula and clavicle. bio.winona.edu /thompson/Adam/Reviews/muscneck.htm   (1352 words)

Muscles and Tendons Menu - Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics Classification of the vascular anatomy of muscles: experimental and clinical correlation. Muscle flap transposition with function preservation: technical and clinical considerations. The effect of muscle architecture on the biomechanical failure properties of skeletal muscle under passive extension. www.wheelessonline.com /ortho/muscle_index   (285 words)

Table II On the left there are the muscles lying deep to those shown on the right. One can also note the interspinales of the neck, to the side of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the neck, the recti and the obliqui capitis below the cranial base and the scaleni, laterally, that go (in the same way as on the right) downwards to the first and the second rib. Finally, in the lumbar region, attention is drawn to the posterior aspect of the quadratus lumborum, of which the ileolumbares fasciculi are easily recognizable on the surface and deep inside the ileocostales ones. pacs.unica.it /tav2eng.htm   (108 words)

Treatment of vascular and tension headache atypical facial pain allergic rhinitis and cervical muscle hyperactivity - ... Cervical muscle hyperactivity (spasm), is an extremely common condition with many causes, including tension, response to an inflamed or subluxed joint, arthritic changes, poor posture or work habits, trauma, systemic disease and adjacent pathology. The relation between the condition of cervical muscle spasm and the previously described headaches and facial pain can be demonstrated by the fact that the headache and facial pain patients do not respond as well to treatment in the presence of significant cervical muscle spasm. Because of the relative accessibility of the maxillary nerve plexus, it was possible to consistently demonstrate several elements of local sterile inflammation, i.e., (1) normal appearing tissue, (2) consistent tenderness in that area that was strongly related to symptoms, (3) increased temperature associated with area of tenderness, and (4) positive response to treatment with cold. www.freepatentsonline.com /5693077.html   (3901 words)

eMedicine - Spinal Cord, Topographical and Functional Anatomy : Article by Francisco de Assis Aquino Gondim, MD, MSc, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20) Posterior (ie, dorsal funiculi) columns convey 3 different types of sensation: (1) proprioception or position sense, for which the sensory receptors are the muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs; (2) vibratory sense, for which the receptor is the Pacinian corpuscle; and (3) discriminative touch, for which the receptor is the Meissner corpuscle. Urine is stored when the external urethral sphincter muscle (somatic) and the internal urethral sphincter muscle (sympathetic) are contracted and the detrusor muscle and sacral parasympathetic activity are inhibited through sympathetic mediation. Parasympathetic pathways arising from the sacral spinal cord innervate the erectile tissue in the penis and clitoris; smooth muscle and glandular tissue in the prostate, urethra, seminal vesicles, vagina, and uterus; as well as blood vessels and secretory epithelia in various structures. www.emedicine.com /neuro/topic657.htm   (4555 words)

Muscle Spindles in the Deep Muscles of the Human Neck: A Morphological and Immunocytochemical Study -- Liu et al. 51 ... Kucera J (1982) One-bag-fiber muscle spindles in tenuissimus muscles of the cat. Porter JD (1986) Brainstem terminations of extraocular muscle primary afferent neurons in the monkey. Richmond FJ, Abrahams VC (1975) Morphology and distribution of muscle spindles in dorsal muscles of the cat neck. www.jhc.org /cgi/content/full/51/2/175   (4042 words)

AANS.org | Education and Meetings | AANS Scientific Journals | Neurosurgical Focus The muscles of the first and second layers are reflected: semispinalis capitis muscle (sem) superiorly and sternocleidomastoid (stm) and splenius capitis (spm) muscles laterally. In the atlantoaxial region, the obliquus capitis inferior and the semispinalis and splenius cervicis muscles delineate the inferior suboccipital triangle. The rpmim is in position, whereas the osm is reflected laterally, and the oim and rpmam muscles are reflected inferiorly. www.aans.org /education/journal/neurosurgical/dec96/1-6-p2.asp?ShowMenu=false&ShowPrint=false   (6179 words)

Mailgate: misc.health.therapy.occupational: A SICK MASSAGE TRICK For those unaware as I was, what this manipulation does is causes the Semispinalis to become aggrevated at first, and perpetually aggrevated by the normal action of the shoulderblade to the point where the muscle will initially develop microtears and subsequently scar tissue there. Since the nature of the Semispinalis Capitus is to primarily facilitate control of one's head laterally, this tear caused my head to twitch uncontrollably to the left for nearly six months until the tear and the rest of me could heal more or less. As I understand now, when you move your eyes laterally from normally straight to the far left, this will usually "prompt" your semispinalis muscle to contract and move your head in the direction you are looking. mailgate.supereva.it /misc/misc.health.therapy.occupational/msg00430.html   (1289 words)

Muscles of The Spine Muscles are named according to their shape, location, or a combination. Muscles and ligaments work together to support the spine, hold it upright, and control movement during rest and activity. Epimysium is the fascia closest to the muscle. www.spineuniverse.com /rtbarticle.php/article1272.html   (289 words)

Ebook More Info -Untrioctium - Free For You.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20) The Spinalis dorsi, the medial continuation of the Sacrospinalis, is scarcely separable as a distinct muscle. It is intimately united with the Semispinalis dorsi, situated beneath it. The Spinalis capitis (Biventer cervicis) is usually inseparably connected with the Semispinalis capitis. tr_ombudsmanlk.tr.lmoney.org   (1405 words)

IngentaConnect Neck semispinalis capitis muscle size in sittingand prone positio... Objective: To examine the reliability of measurements of semispinalis capitis muscle (SECM) cross-sectional area (CSA) in prone and sitting positions, and to compare the muscle size in these two positions. Design: Semispinalis capitis CSA was measured twice a day on twosuccessive days with a real-time ultrasound apparatus. Such accuracy allows neck muscle evaluation in clinical diagnosis and in follow-up studies during neck rehabilitationprogrammes. www.ingentaconnect.com /content/sage/cr/1998/00000012/00000001/art00006?crawler=true   (261 words)

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