Rule of 3's: Location of Spinous Processes

Thoracic vertebral levels T1-T12 have spinous processes that vary in their position relative to their vertebral body and transverse processes.

[maxdef]

I'll just leave this here (Geelhoed et al. 2006):

"In 1979, Mitchell described a ‘‘rule of threes, ’’ which attempted to predict the location of the level of the thoracic TPs relative to their corresponding SPs. We previously conducted a pilot study to investigate the validity of the rule of threes and concluded that it is not an accurate predictor of the level of the location of the TPs of the thoracic spine.

Based on that previous work, we hypothesized that a more accurate model for predicting the level of the TPs would be that they are generally at the level of the SP of the adjacent cranial thoracic vertebra throughout the
thoracic spine."

Good day to y'all

[richardnguyen]

lmao i love how your example was based on cervical vertebrae

[Slappyhappychap]

Good bless you practical and exam tomorrow, and this for sure is going to be tested multiple times I'm Thanks!!!

[joebyrne]

Pays 50k a year in tuition for medical school.








goes to youtube

[MrPipeter]

Wait a minute, didn't think there was a C8 spine level... bah just for demo purposes OK.

[soyyo]

The gap at about t7 feels abit bigger, is that a sablaxation ? Thanks

[woshwbdsiashqwed]

you know you're in a bad spot when you didn't realize anything wrong about C8 being in the video until you check the comment section

[barbrandall]

We only have 7 cervical vertebrae in Canada.