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Muscles
Extensers of the back
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02/02/2011

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Muscle name: Splenius Capitis

 

Structure and relationships: V shape muscle, Holding head, just deap to the limb muscles.

 

Function: Ritatuin of the head (one), Extension of the head (both), Lateral flexion of the head.

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Name of muscle: Splenius Cervicis

 

Structure and relationships: V shaped muscle that attaches to the neck, Just inferior to the splenius capitis.

 

Function: Rotation of neck, Lateral flexion of neck, Extension of neck.

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Name of muscle: Iliocostalis Muscle.

 

Structure and relationship: Long V shaped, deep to the spino transverse group.

 

Function: Posture and support, Extension, Lateral flexion.

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Name of muscle:Longissimus

 

structure and relationships: Long column of muscle, Connects to the head, Medial to the iliocostalis, goes from sacrum to the head, deep to the spino-transverse muscle.

 

Function: Extension, and Posture.

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Name: Spinalis Muscle

 

Structure and relationship: Close to the spine, Medial to the longissimus, mid back, deep to the spino-transverse.

 

Function: Extension, and Posture.

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Two muscles that make up the spinotransverse Muscles.

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Splenius Capitis

 

 

 

Splenius Cervices

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Three muscles that make up the

 

 

 

Erector Spinae Muscle -Posture-

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Illiocostalis Muscle

 

 

Longissimus Muscle

 

 

Spinalis Muscle

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Muscle name: Semispinalis

 

Structure and relationship: A shape, Head-mid thorax, deep to the erector spinae muscles, superficial to the multifidus.

 

Function: Extention of upper body, posture, and Rotation.

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