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A licensed massage therapist for 12 years, Rachel Hartley, LMT, BCTMB, runs a sports massage practice in West Lafayette, Indiana, working primarily with distance runners and weightlifters. She writes for Biology Insights on musculoskeletal anatomy and soft-tissue recovery.

What Is the Teres Minor and What Does It Do?
What Muscles Attach to the Coccyx?
How Strong Are Tendons? A Look at Their Biology
Where Is Smooth Muscle Found in the Body?
What Is the Action of the Flexor Carpi Radialis Muscle?
Where Is the Platysma Muscle and What Does It Do?
How Does the Muscular System Produce Heat?
Why Skeletal Muscle Has a Close Relationship With Nerves
What Tendon Is in the Back of the Knee?
What Is a Flexor Tendon? Location, Function & Injuries
Where Are the Tendons in Your Fingers?
Where Are Your Fastest Muscles & Why Are They So Fast?
What Is the Origin and Insertion of the Temporalis Muscle?
What Is the Action of the Flexor Digitorum Longus?
Where Is C7-T1 and Why Is It Important?
What Is the Sartorius Muscle? Anatomy, Function & Health
Are There Muscles in Fingers? How They Actually Move
What Are Myotomes and Why Are They Important?
What Does the Flexor Digitorum Superficialis Do?
What Nerve Innervates the Biceps Femoris?
What Does the Anconeus Muscle Do? Its Function and Location
Where Is the Fibular Head? Location and Anatomy
What Is the Popliteal Region and Why Is It Important?
Where Are Flexor Tendons Located in the Hands and Feet?
What Is the Teres Major? Location, Function, and Health
Is the Sacrum Fused and Why Does It Matter?
What Is the Flexor Digitorum Superficialis?
What Is the Pectineus Muscle? Function, Pain, and Care
What Is Perimysium and What Does It Do?
Where Is the Gracilis Located? Anatomy and Function