14/08/2025
The suboccipitals are a group of small but powerful muscles located just beneath the base of your skull. They control precise movements between your skull and the top two vertebrae in your neck:
1. Re**us Capitis Posterior Minor
2. Re**us Capitis Posterior Major
3. Obliquus Capitis Superior
4. Obliquus Capitis Inferior
These muscles are densely packed with proprioceptors and are directly tied to how your eyes stabilize your visual field. In fact, every time your eyes track, fixate, or shift, the suboccipitals coordinate to keep your head still and aligned. That link is what makes them so sensitive to eye strain or visual dysfunction.
When your eyes struggle to converge or focus properly, your suboccipitals often overcompensate, locking down into a state of chronic tension. This can lead to nerve compression, poor cervical coordination, and suboccipital headaches that mimic migraines.
What most people miss is this: eye imbalances are not just about blurred vision or eye fatigue. They directly overload the postural system. If the eyes can’t guide the head, the suboccipitals take over. Over time, that creates tightness, headaches, neck pain, and loss of upper body stability.
Fix the eyes. Release the neck. Change the posture. It starts with restoring the link between vision and spinal control..
