There are over 700 muscles in the human body and they are identified in large groups. The muscles groups in the head and neck are the suboccipital, prevertebral, anterolateral neck, superficial neck, anterior neck, epicranial, muscles of facial expression, muscles of mastication, extraocular and laryngeal. Each of the muscles have a beginning point, the origin and an ending, the insertion. For example, in the suboccipital group, there is the obliquus capitis inferior that originates at the spinous process axis and its insertion is in the transverse process of atlas. …
