Set of levatores costarum longi

Looks like

Longer muscles in the lower chest spine, running from a vertebra's side process down to the rib two levels below.

What it does

Lift the ribs slightly and help bend the spine to the side.

Keeping it well

Rarely a source of symptoms; they are part of the deep back layer powered by spinal nerve back branches.

Related conditions

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