Cervical rotator

Looks like

Tiny muscles in the neck, each running from one vertebra's side process to the spine of the vertebra one or two above.

What it does

Help rotate and steady the neck vertebrae and sense their position.

Keeping it well

Poorly developed in the neck; mainly provide position sense.

Related conditions

• Botulism
• Fibromyalgia
• Frailty & falls in older age
• Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
• Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
• Muscular dystrophy
• Polymyalgia rheumatica
• Rhabdomyolysis
• Sarcoma
• Sarcopenia
• Tetanus