Multifidus & deep rotators
Musculus multifidus et musculi rotatores · Mnohoklanný sval a hluboké rotátory
Muscles
Looks like
Short, deep muscles filling the grooves either side of the spine, from the neck to the sacrum.
What it does
Hold single vertebrae steady — the fine control behind every safe lift.
Keeping it well
Specific exercise; it wastes within days of back pain and does not come back on its own.
Its parts
- Cervical rotator
- Interspinalis thoracis
- Lateral lumbar intertransversarius
- Lumbar rotator
- Medial lumbar intertransversarius
- Semispinalis capitis
- Semispinalis cervicis
- Semispinalis thoracis
- Set of anterior cervical intertransversarii
- Set of interspinales cervicis
- Set of interspinales lumborum
- Set of posterior cervical intertransversarii
- Thoracic rotator
- Interspinales lumborum muscles
- Interspinales thoracis muscles
- Multifidus colli muscle
- Multifidus lumborum muscle
- Multifidus thoracis muscle