Spine- skills practice

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What does EOP stand for?
External occipital protuberance
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What do these muscles do acting together?
>Rectus abdominus
>External Obliques
>Internal Obliques
>Psoas minor
>Psoas major
They flex the trunk and thoracic spine when lying supine. The psoas major and minor also flex the hip.
ACTION: Doing a sit up
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What do these muscles do?
>Internal oblique
>External oblique
>Semispinalis
>Rotatores
>Multifidus
With opposite obliques acting, they rotate the lumbar and thoracic spine
ACTION: twisting/turning in sitting
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What do these muscles do?
>Erector spinae
>Semispinalis
>Multifidus
They extend (lift and straighten) the spine from full forward flexion. They eccentrically control forward flexion (bending) until they get to end of range
ACTION: lifting the head and upper back (extension) in prone (face down) lying.
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What do these muscles do?
>Intertransversarii
>Interspinales
>Rotatores
These are tiny muscles that can’t produce much force at all. However, anatomically, they will rotate, extend or side bend one vertebrae on another. They have a high proportion of muscle spindles in them, and so probably are proprioceptive, that is they te
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What do these muscles do?
>Quadratus lumborum
>The abdominals (except rectus)
>Erector spinae
They side bend, or laterally flex the trunk or spine.
ACTION: Bending side to side in standing
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what do these muscles do?
>Longus colli
>Longus capitis
They flex the neck
ACTION: : Longus capitis nods the head (against resistance), both flex cervical spine to reduce or flatten the cervical lordosis
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What do these muscle do acting all together?
>Rectus capitis posterior major & minor
>Obliqus capitis superior & inferior
The extend the head on the neck, and they control the position of the head on the neck
ACTION: Poke your chin forward
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What do these muscles do (both sides acting together)?
>Splenius capitis and cervicis
>Erector spinae attaching to the head and neck
They extend the head and neck.
ACTION: look up to the ceiling
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what do these muscles do?
Group 1: Splenius cervicis,
Longisssimus capitis & cervicus
Semispinalis cervicis
Group 2: Semispinalis cervicis,
Multifidus & Rotatores
Sternocleidomastoid
Rotates the neck to the same side
ACTION: Turn to look to the side
Group 1: turn your neck toward the side they are on;
Group 2: turn your neck toward the opposite side they are on
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What do these muscles do, acting on one side?
>Splenius cervicis & capitis
>Longissimus capitius & cervicus
>Iliocostalis cervicis
>Scaleni
>Intertransversarii
>Levator scapulae
>Sternocleidomastoid
They side bend or side flex the neck to the same side
ACTION: tilt your head to the side
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Card 2

Front

What do these muscles do acting together?
>Rectus abdominus
>External Obliques
>Internal Obliques
>Psoas minor
>Psoas major

Back

They flex the trunk and thoracic spine when lying supine. The psoas major and minor also flex the hip.
ACTION: Doing a sit up

Card 3

Front

What do these muscles do?
>Internal oblique
>External oblique
>Semispinalis
>Rotatores
>Multifidus

Back

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Card 4

Front

What do these muscles do?
>Erector spinae
>Semispinalis
>Multifidus

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

What do these muscles do?
>Intertransversarii
>Interspinales
>Rotatores

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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