Monday, September 6, 2010

ANATOMY OF THE SPINE & ITS FUNCTION

September 9, 2009 by  
Filed under Pilates & Yoga

The human spine is an upright bendy column made up of 7 cervical vertebrae forming the neck, 12 thoracic vertebrae forming the middle back and 5 lumbar vertebrae forming the lower back. These 24 vertebrae sit on a triangular bone called the sacrum to which your pelvis is attached at the sacro-iliac joint. The coccyx [...]