Can you tell which view you are looking at for each one of these spinal views? How many cervical lumbar, and thoracic vertebra are there? What are the processes at the 'back' of the spine called? Can you name the 4 curves of the spinal colum? To which vertebra do the ribs attach? How many joints from the one vertebra to the one above or below? Are there any exceptions to this
There are 4 types of bones, namely, short, long, ______ &________.
What type are these?
How can you tell the difference between the upper and lower vertebrae? Which is an example of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebra. can you recognise the sacrum? Can you recognise each plane view of each vertebra show here?
This is an educational aid to my students studying human movement anatomy. Images used are borrowed from a variety of sources, many to old, or indistinct to acknowledge. They are strictly for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY
Dr Mark Vella ND is an innovator in integrated medicine and the commercialisation of wellness. With 17 years of qualification, skill and experience in practice in consulting, personal training, bodywork, health education and natural medicine, he now consults to organisations & corporate wellness providers.
Registered with the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa, he also holds qualifications in business, exercise, bodywork and journalism.
Achievements include pioneering the 1st wellness/ personal training centres in Cape Town, co-authoring the world’s 1st internet/ call centre protocol database in Natural Medicine, & having 2 books selling over 100 000 copies worldwide, in 7 languages. Mark is the author of several wellness programs and qualifications. He is the Director of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, and the Hand-up, Hands-on Apprenticeship Program, both of which he developed.
Since 1992, he has owned and directed the successful MASSAGE ON THE BEACH in Cape Town, whilst studying further in Western Medicine and an honours in Business at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town.