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TIGHT TIGHT

WEAK WEAK

WEAK

TIGHT

1 1

4 4

2

3

the slouch

upper crossed syndrome

Imbalance: tight shoulder, rear-neck and chest muscles cross with

weak deep-neck flexors and midback muscles

Injury zones: neck strain and rotator cuff syndrome or rotator cuff tears

Overactive or tight muscles and underactive or weak muscles

can include:

1 TIGHT

rear neck and side neck

levator scapulae

scalenes

sternocleidomastoid

upper trapezius

shoulder internal rotators

subscapularis

teres major

anterior deltoids

4 WEAK

deep-neck flexors

longus capitis

longus colli

2 WEAK

upper-arm external rotators

infraspinatus

posterior deltoids

teres minor

shoulder stabilizers

rhomboids

serratus anterior

middle trapezius (along midback)

lower trapezius (along midback)

3 TIGHT

chest muscles

pectoralis major

pectoralis minor

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