Trunk and Ribcage Muscular and Neurological Screening

Question 1

Diaphragm, levator costaru, external intercostals and anterior internal intercostals

Answer 1

Action: Inspiration
Cord: C3-C5 and T1- T12
Nerves: Phrenic and intercostal

Question 2

Internal obliques, TA, External obliques, posterior internal intercostals and rectus abdominis

Answer 2

Action: Forced expiration
Cord: T7-L1 and T7-T12, T1-12 T7-T12
Nerves: Intercostal

Question 3

Erector spinae, transversopinalis, interspinales, rotatores intertransversarii

Answer 3

Action: Spinal extension
Cord: T1-12, L1-L5 and S1- S3

Question 4

Rectus abdominis/ external obliques, internal obliques and psoas minor

Answer 4

Action: Spinal Flexion
Cord: T7-T12, T7-L1, L1
Nerves: Intercostal, Intercostal and Lumbar plexus

Question 5

Quadratus Lumborum

Answer 5

Action: Spine lateral flexion ( hip hiking in reverse)
Cord: T12-L3
Nerve: Lumbar plexus

Question 6

Rotators, Internal/external oblique, intertransversarii, Transversopspinalis

Answer 6

Action= Spinal Rotation