Muscle Groups

With Primary functions, common use, and signs of overload.
The Muscle Groups chart is a clear, patient-friendly anatomy poster designed to help clinics explain how major muscle groups work together during everyday movement — and how overload can develop when demand exceeds capacity.

Rather than focusing on isolated muscles or exercise prescriptions, this chart presents muscle groups through a functional lens: their primary role, when they are commonly involved, and typical signs of overload. This makes it easy for practitioners to connect posture, movement patterns, and symptoms in a way patients can immediately understand.

With a clean layout and concise language, the poster supports quick explanations during consultations, movement assessments, and follow-up visits. It works equally well as a professional reference and as a patient-facing educational tool, helping to build shared understanding around load, movement, and muscular balance.

Designed for everyday clinical use, this chart integrates naturally with posture, gait, and joint-related education, making it a valuable addition to chiropractic, osteopathic, physiotherapy, and movement-focused clinics.

Free customisation with your clinic’s name.
For this chart we offer to add your clinic’s name (or website address) for free! The name will go instead of the current sub-headline on the artwork; view an illustration of this in the image gallery.

View this chart here on YouTube.

Black Edition.
This chart is available to order in a special black edition, which can be previewed in the image gallery.

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Part of:
Movement & Muscles
Often displayed with:
Muscle Structure and Shapes of Skeletal Muscles, Sports Injuries

Available as poster prints (frames not included), canvas prints (built-in-frames), and print-it-yourself PDF files. Browse the image gallery to view the options for this artwork, incl. types and sizes, optional name or website placement, and the ten language versions!

★★★★★ “An invaluable help for all DC’s who are more knowledgable about adjusting patients, than styling a clinic!” – 🇩🇰 Chiro BC

How this chart supports patient education.
This Muscle Groups Chart helps practitioners explain major muscle groups, primary muscle functions and the relationship between everyday movement, muscle use and overload. It gives patients a clear visual reference for understanding how key muscle groups support posture, strength, stability, movement control and common functional demands. Useful for explaining muscle groups, muscle function, movement patterns, signs of overload, posture, rehabilitation focus and patient education in physiotherapy, chiropractic, osteopathy, sports therapy, massage therapy and movement-based clinics.