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Suboccipital muscles
Description
The suboccipital muscles consist of four pairs of muscles situated deep in the neck at cervical-occipital junction. These muscles act at the atlanto-occipital joint to extend and rotate. The four muscles comprising this group are the rectus capitis posterior major, the rectus capitis posterior minor, the obliquus capitis superior, and the obliquus capitis inferior.