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Professor Delmas was the first to clarify the functional value of certain vertebrae :
- the wedge-shaped character of L5 to be used as transition between a sacrum more or less horizontal and a rachis vertical.

- the role of knee-cap of D12, hinge vertebra on which the muscles of gutter have little insertion.


- but it is especially L3 having a posterior arc very developped which is useful as a point of support with ear-thorn-bush in its action of rachis erecting as soon as L3 is fixed to pelvis by the intermediary of iliac beams of longissimus.

Located at the node of lumbar lordosis with plates parallel between them, L3 is the first really mobile vertebra of the lumbar rachis. L4 and L5 strongly moored to the pelvis forming more a static transition than a dynamic one.

The use ( we will see it further on ) of L4 and L5 for dynamic purposes causes lumbagos by constraint on the posterior articulars, wear of the intervertebral discs or slipped discs.

For better understanding of the operation of the muscular system characterizing the dynamic attitude,we will initially describe the system being used for the rachis erection starting from L3 , then the system being used for the mooring of the rachis below L3.


A) Above L3 :

  1. Ear-thorn-bush : muscle starting from the thorny of L3 to finish on the thorny of D2.Muscle to plates fitting on all the thornies with one particular force starting from D10 supporting the first rachis erection.
  2. Longissimus : lons spindle-shaped mass located apart the previous fitting on the transverse processes of the lumbar and dorsal vertebrae until D2 and the second coasts.The higher beams of this muscle finish on the thorny and the body of L3 and sacral and iliac beams starting from the processes of L3.
  3. Posterior and lower notched : which leaves from the three first lumbar vertebra thornies and from the two last dorsal ones to finish on the three or four last coasts.


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L3 Muscles

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