Spine Functions
List the four main functions of the spine.
What are protection, rib attachment, support, and a natural curve?
Which nerve is a our spinal cord?
What is the chief nerve?
Which muscle does C3 innervate?
What is the SCM?
True or False:
The thoracic spine and spinal cord had the most amount of movement in your spine.
What is false?
TRUE OR FALSE:
Your lumbar spine has the largest vertebrae of your spinal column?
What is true?
What does our spine protect?
What is your spinal cord?
Which two structures are part of your central nervous system?
What are the brain and spinal cord?
What are the diaphragm and the trapezius?
Which muscles does your thoracic spinal cord innervate?
What are the respiratory muscle or the muscle od breathing?
What muscle action does L1 and L2 control?
What is hip flexion?
Which area of the spine do our ribs attach?
What are the thoracic vertebrae?
Which area of the spinal cord has 8 pair of nerve roots?
What is the cervical spinal cord?
Which muscles does C6 innervate?
What are the biceps and the wrist and forearm flexors?
Other than your cervical spinal cord, what muscle does the cervical spinal cord and the thoracic spinal cord innervate?
What is the diaphragm?
What muscle action does L3 control?
What is knee extension?
Why is our spine curved?
What is to have a natural sway against gravity?
Which area of the spinal cord has 12 pair of spinal nerves?
What is thoracic spinal cord?
Which muscles does C7 innervate?
What are the triceps and the wrist and forearm extensors?
Because your thoracic spinal cord innervates your breathing muscles, which action does it also control?
What is coughing?
What muscle action does S2 control?
What is knee flexion?
Furthermore, why is our spine curved?
What is to distribute pressure evenly throughout the body?
Finally, how does the brain and spinal cord work in conjunction with each other to provide motor and sensation to our bodies?
What are motor and sensory innervation?
Motor from the brain to the spinal cord to the body.
Sensory from the spinal cord to the brain back to the spinal cord then to the body.
Which muscles does C8 innervate?
What are your hand muscles?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Your thoracic spinal cord control your muscles of breathing but also has one more important role for your body, it controls balance and ___________.
What is posture?
Finally, your sacrum control plantarflexion of the foot and knee flexion. What other action does our sacram help us control?
What is our bowel and bladder respoinse?