IMPORTANT JOINTS OF VERTEBRAL COLUMN
The lumbar region of the vertebral column permits all of the following movements except:
| A |
Flexion |
|
| B |
Extension |
|
| C |
Lateral flexion |
|
| D |
Rotation |
The lumbar region of the vertebral column permits all of the following movements except:
| A |
Flexion |
|
| B |
Extension |
|
| C |
Lateral flexion |
|
| D |
Rotation |
D i.e. Rotation
The most important step in primary management of a patient with fracture vertebral column:
| A |
Careful transport of patient |
|
| B |
Maintenance of airway |
|
| C |
Treatment of shock |
|
| D |
None of the above |
The most important step in primary management of a patient with fracture vertebral column:
| A |
Careful transport of patient |
|
| B |
Maintenance of airway |
|
| C |
Treatment of shock |
|
| D |
None of the above |
B i.e. Maintenance of airway
Number of vertebrae in vertebral column ‑
| A |
25 |
|
| B |
27 |
|
| C |
29 |
|
| D |
33 |
Number of vertebrae in vertebral column ‑
| A |
25 |
|
| B |
27 |
|
| C |
29 |
|
| D |
33 |
Ans. is ‘d’ i.e., 33
- The back extends from skull to tip of coccyx and includes posterior surface of neck and trunk.
- Present in the dorsal (posterior) midline is the vertebral column forming the central bony pillar of the body.
- The vertebral column (spinal column) is composed of 33 vertebrae : – 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral (fused to form sacrum) and 4 coccygeal (fused to form coccyx).
