Spine Quiz

1. Ehich segment of the cervical spine does NOT experience lateral rotation?

C1-Occiput

C1-2

C2-3

C3-4

C7-T1

2. Which of the following is NOT true of the cervical spine?

Cresent shaped annulus

Kidney shaped vertebral body

Adjacent vertebrae articulate via the uncovertebral joint

Disc is divided by the uncovertebral cleft

Posterior annulus is thin walled

3. Identify the incorrect statement regarding the cervical disc

Cresent shaped annulus that becomes thinner laterally

Lower water content than the thoracic or lumbar disc

The nucleus is highly vascular and innervated

An uncovertberal cleft can be identified that advances to divded the disc by age 14

Disc prolapse rarely occurs posteriorlaterally

4. Which tissue of the thoracic spine has the highest elastic component?

Nuscleus pulposis

Annulus fibrosus

Ligamentum flavum

Posterior longditudinal ligament

Interspinous ligament

5. Identify the incorrect statement regarding the cervical vertebrae

Oval shaped end plates that curl up at the lateral edges

Paired uncinate processes which guide movement

Triangular shaped vertebral foramen

Transverse processes have 2 tubercles for muscle attachment

Foramen transversarium through which passes the vertebral artery at all levels

6. Which of the following is NOT true of the intertransversarii?

Originates on the transverse processes of T1-C2

Line of action produces lateral flexion

All fibres are innervates by the posterior primary rami

Anteriolateral fibres are innervated by the anterior rami

Inserts onto the tubercle of the superior transverse process

7. The orientation of the zygapophyseal joints on the thoracic spine is approximately

45 degrees to the sagittal plane

60 degrees to the sagittal plane

90 degrees to the sagittal plane

0 degrees to the frontal plane

45 degrees to the frontal plane

8. Which stucture of the lumbar spine recieves innervation from the sinuvertebral nerve?

Outer 1/3 of the annulus

Periosteum of teh spinous process

Zygapophyeseal joints

Posterior lumbar musculature

Skin over the vertebrae

9. Which of the following is NOT true of longus colli?

Innervated by the ventral rami C2-6

Inserts onto the transverse processes of C3-C5

Inferior fibres originate at vertebral bodies of C5-T3

Inserts onto the transverse processes of C1-3

Superior fibres originate on transverse processes of C3-6

10. The gray rami communicans innverates what structures of the lumbar spine?

Vertebral end plates

Zygapophseal joints

Fibres of multifidus

Outer 1/3 of the disc

Nucleus pulposis

11. Which nerve can be found in the inferior margin of the intervertebral foramen (IVF)

Sypathetic ganglion

Gray ramus communicans

Recurrent meningeal

Ventral ramus

Dorsal root ganglion