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The spinal column is our central support structure and protects the spinal cord— our brains live wire to communicating with the rest of the body.
The spine has 33 bones, called vertebrae, divided into five sections: cervical, thoracic, lumbar spine sections, and sacrum and coccyx bones. Compression or damage to the spinal cord can cause pain and/or neurological deficits anywhere below level of injury.
Our cervical spine consists of the top seven vertebrae in the spine, C1 to C7, and is connected to the base of the skull. Damage to the cervical spine is more easily be sustained with a fraction of the forces that the rest of our spine can handle, due to the smaller bones and less protected location. Car accidents 🚗(severe whip lash) and diving injuries 💦 (hitting your head on the bottom of a shallow pool).
C1 and C2 are unique in function and shape. (C1) is called the atlas and is ring-shaped attaching to the base of our skull. Atlas holds our head upright. The second (C2) vertebra is called axis, allowing for rotation of the head.
Our Cervical Spine has 8 spinal nerves. C1, C2 and C3 control forward, backward, side head and neck movements., When you give a “what’s up” or “Nope, no way, never” shake sideways.
C4 controls a shrugging shoulder and one of the nerves that controls our diaphragm (muscles that help us breathe). C4 also gives us sensation of a kiss on the neck and a mosquito 🦟 chomping our upper arm.
C5 controls our deltoid muscle = raise your arms out to the side so TSA and pat you down and our biceps = flexion of the arm— curling that Colorado IPA up to your lips. 🍻
C6 provides sensation to your thumb while digging the bats out of the cave and controls your wrist and bicep to getting the perfect angle of attack in said job. 👃
C7 controls our triceps and wrist extensor muscles. Triceps = straightening our arms and pushing up out of the pool. Extensor muscles = tapping your hand to a beat. OOO it also gives sensation to the back of the arm into your middle 🖕
C8 controls our hands and gives us sensation to the pinky side of the hand forearm. | Posted on 06/Sep/2022 05:46:00
