Health Sciences 2300A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Suprasternal Notch, Biconnected Component, Spinal Disc Herniation
22 Jan 2018
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*we can describe the curve anteriorly or posteriorly but you always have to specify which perspective you are using. Development of curvatures: 1o = primary 2o = secondary, primary curvatures are curves that you are born with. January 18th, 2018: secondary curvatures are curves that you develop overtime, there isn"t really a distinct curvature until we"re born. Even when we are born it doesn"t look like much but there is distinct curvature: cervical curvature develops as the child learns to carry the weight of their head. Abnormal curvature: scoliosis lateral curvature, almost all people have about 5o of scoliosis which we call physiological scoliosis, we are not concerned with this level of scoliosis. If you run your hand down your spine, the bumps you feel are the individual anterior spinous processes. January 18th, 2018: the most prominent one at the back of your neck, is the vertebra. Prominens which is the 7th cervical vertebrae (c7).
