Muscle Name: Posterior Deltoid
Medical Name:
- Posterior Deltoid
Other Names:
- Rear Deltoid
- Posterior Deltoid Muscle
Head:
- None (Posterior part of the deltoid muscle group)
Movement:
- Extension of the shoulder
- Bringing the arm backward
- Horizontal abduction of the shoulder
- Moving the arm away from the body in the horizontal plane
- Lateral rotation of the shoulder
- Rotating the arm outward
Attachment:
- Origin:
- Spine of the scapula
- Insertion:
- Deltoid tuberosity of the humerus
Related Muscles:
- Anterior Deltoid
- Lateral Deltoid
- Teres Major
- Infraspinatus
- Latissimus Dorsi
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