spinal

• Spinal Cord - Long, cylindrical structure that connects your brain and lower back.
• Spinal Cord contains tissues, fluids and nerve cells.
• Spinal Cord is a bony column of vertebrae surrounds and protects your spinal cord.
• Your spinal cord helps carry electrical nerve signals throughout your body.
• The spinal cord divides into 31 segments
• Cervical 8

  Thoracic 12

  Lumbar 5

  Sacral 5

  Coccygeal 1
• These segments consist of 31 pairs of spinal nerves with their respective spinal root ganglia.
• Spinal nerves contain the motor, sensory, and autonomic fibers
• These nerves exit through the intervertebral foramen
• Spinal Cord Bones

  A) Cervical

  B) C1-C7

  C) Thoracic

  D) T1-T2

  E) Lumbar

  F) 11-L5

  G) Sacral

  H) S1-S5

  I) Coccygeal