Set of levatores costarum breves

Looks like

Short small muscles, each running from a vertebra's side process to the rib just below.

What it does

Lift the ribs slightly and help bend and turn the spine.

Keeping it well

Rarely a source of symptoms; pain along a rib with a rash or after a fall needs a doctor.

Related conditions

• Botulism
• Fibromyalgia
• Frailty & falls in older age
• Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
• Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
• Muscular dystrophy
• Polymyalgia rheumatica
• Rhabdomyolysis
• Sarcoma
• Sarcopenia
• Tetanus