The oblique is an important muscle for rotational actions, like hitting a baseball, or throwing a football. And that's why ...

The obliques are the muscles running down either side of the abdomen. Pain in these muscles often occurs due to a type of injury known as “side strain.” There are two sets of oblique muscles: external ...

MedicineNet defines an oblique injury, or side strain, as a "sharp pain in the rib cage the first time the oblique muscle ...