The thoracic spine is located between your cervical and lumbar spines, and it serves as an attachment point for your ribs and for many muscles and bones. If it seems to you like your neck and low ...

Eds L G F Giles, K P Singer. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000. ISBN 7506-4789-2. Understanding thoracic spine pain is complex and demands the sharing of ideas and knowledge to improve the ...

Each vertebra is numbered and grouped into 5 regions. Diagram. There are 7 cervical vertebrae in the cervical region. There are 12 thoracic vertebrae in the thoracic region. There are 5 lumbar ...

Methods: Twenty healthy women volunteered for the study. The maximum isometric force of the neck extensor muscles was measured with the thoracic support located at five different levels. The highest ...