Maintaining a healthy spine with chiropractic evaluations and adjustments in addition to regular exercise and strength training will help keep your spine and spinal discs healthy as you age.What are the different components of the spine?Dr. Luke Stringer: Yeah, absolutely. Great question. So, the spine is essentially made up of the cervical spine, that's your neck, the seven bones, C for cervical, 1 all the way through to 7. It then goes into the upper to mid-back, which we call the thoracic spine. We have 12 bones in the thoracic spine, T for thoracic, 1 through 12. Then we have the lumbopelvic spine, which is the low back, the tailbone and the pelvis. We have five bones in the lumbar spine. We have the sacrum, which is made up of four or five bones. Then we have the pelvis, which is made up of two pelvises.Continue reading The Role and Importance of Your Spinal Disc Health at Advanced Health Chiropractic South Loop.
