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Backandspine
Backandspine
VERTEBRAL/NEURAL ARCH
VERTEBRAL COLUMN
▪ Continues to transmit forces to
✓ Central bony pillar of the body POSTERIOR STRUCTURES
ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT
THORACIC VERTEBRAE
▪ FLEXION/EXTENSIOM, ROTATION
VERTEBRAL BODY
▪ 2DOF
TRANSVERSE PROCESS
TYPICAL CERVICAL VERTREBRAE (C3-C6)
▪ Costal/costotubercular facet (T1-T10)
▪ BIFID SPINOUS PROCESS ▪ (-) costal facet (T11-T12)
▪ UNCOVERTEBRAL JOINT
o “JOINT OF LUSHKA”
o PROTECTS IVD
POSTEROLATERALLY
SUPERIOR Face Thin and Face
ZYGOPOPHYSEAL superiorly flat; face superiorly,
JOINTS
FACETS and posteriorly, medially (+)
posteriorly laterally, mamillary
MOBILE SEGMENTS = 6 JOINTS
superiorly processes
INTERBODY JOINTS
▪ 6 DOF
INFERIOR Face Face Face ▪ SLIDING = ANTEEROPOSTERIORLY, ML,
ZYGAPOPHYSEAL inferiorly inferiorly, laterally and
FACETS and anteriorly, inferiorly TORSIONAL
anteriorly medially ▪ DISTRACTION = COMPRESSION,
ROTATION (TILTING, ROCKING)
▪ SAGITTAL
▪ 900
VERTEBRAL MOTIONS
UPPER CEERVICAL SPINE (ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL
JOINT)
UPPER CERVICAL SPINE (ATLANTO-AXIAL
JOINT MOTION OF INTERVERTEBRAL JOINT)
MOTION SUPERIOR FORAMINA SIZE
JOINT MOTION OF INTERVERTEBRAL
VERTEBRAE
MOTION SUPERIOR FORAMINA SIZE
VERTEBRAE
FLEXION OCCIPITAL
(C0-C1) CONDYLE (AO)
FLEXION C1 → ANT SLIDE MINIMAL
ON C2
ROLL:
ANT MINIMAL
EXTENSION C1 → POST MINIMAL
SLIDE: POST SLIDE ON C2
SLIDE:
ANT
ATLAS
SLIDE:
BACKWARD/POST
ON AXIS
SIDE OCCIPUT (AO)
BENDING
IPSILATERAL:
MEDIAL,
INFERIOR, MINIMAL
ANTERIOR
CONTRALATERAL:
LATERAL,
SUPERIOR,
POSTERIOR
CERVICAL ZYGAPOPHYSEAL FACET JOINTS c/L INFERIOR
FACETS:
▪ SYNOVIAL PLANE SUP, ANT
▪ 450, OBLIQUE (FORWARD)
▪ SUP ARTICULAR FACET = S, P
▪ INF ARRTICULAR FACET = I, A
▪ FIBROCARTILAGINOUS JOINT
FLOATING RIB ▪ XIPHOID PROCESS + BODY OF
STERNUM
▪ VERTEBRAL
▪ RIB 11 AND 12 NOTE: MANUBRIOSTERNAL AND
XIPHISTERNAL JOINT ARE OFTEN FUSED
TOGETHER
TYPICAL RIB
HEAD
COSTOVERTEBRAL JOINT
▪ 2 FACETS: SUPERIOR DEMIFACET OF
▪ HEAD OF RIB + DEMIFACETS OF 2
VERTEBRAE BELOW, INFERIOR
ADJACENT THORACIC VERTEBRAE
DEMIFACET OF VERTEBRAE ABOVE
▪ SYNOVIAL PLANE
SHAFT
COSTOCHONDRAL JOINT
LUMBAR VERTEBRAE
NOTE: RIB 11 AND 12 DOES NOT HAVE INFERIOR Face Face Face
ZYGAPOPHYSEAL inferiorly inferiorly, laterally
COSTOCHONDRAL JOINT
FACETS and anteriorly, and
anteriorly medially inferiorly
TRANSVERSE (+) Large, Long, SIDE i/L INFERIOR
PROCESSES transverse thickened slender,
BENDING FACETS (L T3): LEFT i/L CLOSING
foramen ends; (+) horizontal;
to LEFT INF, POST (approximation)
costal facet; (+) accessory
caudal processes
decrease in RIGHT c/L
length OPENING
c/L INFERIOR (seperation)
SPINOUS Short, T1-T10 slope Broad, thick, FACETS (R T3):
PROCESSES slender, inferiorly; and SUP, ANT
horizontal, T11 and T12 horizontal
bifid tips are
triangular
and
horizontal;tip JOINT SUPERIOR RIBS
lies at the
MOTION VERTEBRRAE
level of the
caudal
FLEXION ANTERIOR UPPER 6
vertebral TILTING AND (ROTATE):
body GLIDING ANTERIORLY
ROTATE
VERTEBRAL Large and Small and Triangular,
FORAMEN triangular circular small
LOWER 6
(GLIDE):
SUPERIORLY
VERTEBRAL MOTIONS GLIDE
▪ LIMIT FLEXION
MUSCLES OF THE BACK AND SPINE DEEEP ERECTOR SPINAE
INTERMEDIATE TRANSVERSOSPINALES
▪ ROTATORS
o Small muscle