Muscle group · Head
Suboccipitals
Musculi suboccipitales
Reviewed by Dr. Ryan Rietz, D.P.T. and Dr. John Breyman, D.C.
Four small deep muscles at the base of the skull — the two rectus capitis posterior muscles and the two obliquus capitis muscles — which make the fine nodding and rotating adjustments of the head on the top two vertebrae and are unusually rich in position sensors.
Also known as
- suboccipital muscles
- base of skull muscles