Team spine tour · full consult version and the website versions
Inside your spine
A guided tour of your spine.
Follow the tour, or switch to Explore to look around. See how the spine is built, how signals travel between the brain and body, where each nerve root is often felt, and what disc changes and narrowing look like.
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Your spine
Twenty-four movable vertebrae stack into three gentle curves: seven in your neck (C1–C7), twelve in your mid-back (T1–T12) and five in your low back (L1–L5), all resting on the sacrum. Discs cushion each movement, and your spinal cord runs protected through the center.
- Bone
- Disc
- Nerve
- Ligament
- Muscle
- Signal to muscles
- Signal to brain
An educational illustration, not a diagnosis. Where symptoms are felt varies from person to person, and pain can have many causes. Your evaluation is how we find out what’s going on.