6 Essential Muscles That Cause Pain Elsewhere
One of the more frustrating features of neck and shoulder pain is that the spot that hurts is frequently not the spot causing it. People spend months rubbing a shoulder, stretching a neck, or icing a headache while the muscle actually generating the symptom sits somewhere they’ve never thought about — and it goes untreated because nobody looked there.
Muscles refer pain in reasonably consistent patterns. Those patterns have been mapped in detail, and knowing them is one of the more useful things a manual therapist brings to an assessment. Here are the six that account for a large share of what walks through the door.