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The Musculature of the Back

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Applied Anatomy of the Back

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The skeletal musculature of our body is derived from the mesoderm. Muscles arise both from the primitive segments (somites) and from the nonsegmented mesoderm. In the back the latter furnishes the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles, which are spoken of as visceral muscles to distinguish them from the somatic muscles. All the other muscles of the back originate from the somites or their derivatives.

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  1. Anatomisches Institut der Universität, Zürich, Switzerland

    Professor Dr. med. Josef Rickenbacher & Professor Dr. med. Karl Theiler

  2. Universitätsspital, Neurochirurgische Klinik, Zürich, Switzerland

    Professor Dr. med. Alex M. Landolt & Professor Dr. med. Jean Siegfried

  3. Klinik Wilhelm Schulthess, Zürich, Switzerland

    Professor Dr. med. Heinrich Scheier

  4. Institut für physikalische Therapie, Universitätsspital, Rheumaklinik, Zürich, Switzerland

    Professor Dr. med. Franz J. Wagenhäuser

  5. Wollaton Park, Nottingham, Great Britain

    Dr. R. R. Wilson

  6. 63 Weald Road, CM14 4TN, GB, Brentwood, Essex, UK

    Dr. D. P. Winstanley

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Rickenbacher, J. et al. (1985). The Musculature of the Back. In: Applied Anatomy of the Back. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05791-9_4

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