Here’s my anecdotal evidence. I had a very bad neck pain for the last few years, sometimes it can be very acute with no obvious trigger. I almost wouldn’t be able to move my neck at all. I tried to cut my laptop and phone use, but to very little avail. Untill one day I accidently found it’s acutally more like my trapezius than my neck, then I realized it was from weight training—the activity that was supposed to improve my posture and muscles. Then I finally zoomed in onto one exercise: the squat. Holding the bar required squeezing my shoulder blades and, your guessed, trapezius. The squeeze was so slight I never felt any immediate discomfort. But from a post hoc perspective the acute neck pain usually occured a few days after the workout. The causal link is very hard to notice. But once I stopped doing squats, the neck pain almost never occurred again. And you’d think if it’s the trapezius then exercises that utilize the same muscle would cause the same symptom? Yet the answet is no.