Final Anterior Longitudinal Ligament

Question 1

What is the lowest extent of the anterior longitudinal ligament based o recent studies

Answer 1

L3

Question 2

What is believed to form the anterior longitudinal ligament in the Lumbar spine

Answer 2

The tendon of the crura of the diaphragm

Question 3

What innervates the anterior longitudinal ligament

Answer 3

The anterior neural plexus formed by fibers from the ventral primary ramus and sympathetic postganglionic fibers from the paravertebral ganglia

Question 4

What is the function of the anterior longitudinal ligament

Answer 4

It brakes or limits Dorsi flexion or hyperextension of the vertebral column

Question 5

What was ossification of the anterior longitudinal ligament in the lumbar region identified as

Answer 5

Forestiers disease

Question 6

What is ossification of the anterior longitudinal ligament in the lumbar region now identified as

Answer 6

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis or DISH

Question 7

What vertebral levels will the anterior longitudinal ligament attach to

Answer 7

Those between occiput and S3 inclusive are traditionally indicated