Spinal Dynamics: Dissection Livestream Specialty Class with Japanese Translation

Thank you for your interest. This course is now closed. Please email info@anatomytrains.com with any questions. 

Please join us for this unique Dissection Livestream event focused on spinal dynamics with Anatomy Trains author Tom Myers, Master Dissector Todd Garcia and Master Japanese Translator Kaori Tani

This course will be provided over zoom webinar with multiple camera views, live chat and Q&A. Recordings will be provided via password protected streaming access for 5 days. This special dissection livestream format allows us to go more deeply into the relationships and applications to multiple manual and movement modalities, from athletic training to trauma resolution to osteopathy.

Note: To ensure a high quality student experience, registration for this course will CLOSE, Friday, September 30th at 8:30 AM Eastern Time. Zoom links will be sent out promptly after registration closes. 

Course schedule:

Friday, September 30, Saturday, October 1, and Sunday, October 2

7:00-10:00 PM EDT each day

Friday, Sept 30 – 7:00-10:00 PM EDT

Module 1: Cervical spine

Concepts: 

• The unique stability / mobility equations in the neck
• The ‘plywood’ strategy: alternating muscle fiber direction
• Oculomotor reflex and the suboccipital muscular group
• Cervical ligament complexes
• Atlanto-occipital joint movements, Atlanto-axial joint movements
• Cervical spine facet joint dynamics – Rotation, side-bending, flexion / extension
• Support of the cervical spine from the front
• Safe (and unsafe) loading of the cervical spine: carrying water and whiplash

Structures:

• Trapezius muscle
• Levator scapulae muscle
• Splenius capitis & cervicis muscles
• Longissimus capitis & cervicis muscles
• Sternocleidomastoid muscle ( posterior portion )
• Iliocostalis cervicis muscle
• Spinalis capitis & cervicis muscles blending with Semispinalis capitis & cervicis muscles
• Nuchal ligament
• Rectus capitis posterior major, rectus capitis posterior minor, obliquus capitis inferior,
  obliquus capitis superior muscles
• Sternocleidomastoid muscle at sternum & clavicle
• Sternohyoid, sternothyroid, thyrohyoid, omohyoid muscles
• Thyroid cartilage
• Trachea
• Esophagus
• Longus capitis muscle
• Longus colli muscle
• Scalenes
• Rectus capitis lateralis muscle
• Rectus capitis anterior muscle

donor 1 prone  donor 2 supine

Prone

• Skin resection on posterior neck down to T2
• Trapezius: divide and resect (Retain nuchal ligament if poss)
• Splenius capitis and cervicis: divide and resect
• Semispinalis, longissimus, iliocostalis differentiate and resect
• Multifidus: divide and resect
• Sub-occipital muscles, myodural bridge
• A-A and O-A joint movements
• Neck ligaments, intertransverse and supraspinous

Supine

• Scalenes in situ
• Longus capitis and colli
• Rectus capitis lateralis and anterior

Saturday, Oct. 1 – 7:00-10:00 PM EDT

Module 2: Thoracic spine

Concepts:

• The rib ‘basket’ – normal available movement in the thoracic spine
• The thorax in postural compensation:
• Between the pelvis and head: rotation and side-bendinng
• Between the shoulders: stability of the ‘cross’
• Contralaterally between the limbs: sport stability
• The upper ribs: stability at the cervicothoracic junction
• The middle ribs: the mid-dorsal hinge
• The lower ribs: rotation
• The TLJ – T11 – L1, the body’s ‘universal’ joint
• Rib cage position’s role in lumbopelvic stability: top down effects

Structures:

• Latissimus dorsi muscle
• Thoracolumbar aponeurosis & fascia
• Serratus posterior superior muscle
• Serratus posterior inferior muscle
• Rhomboid major & minor muscles
• Erector spinae muscles
• Rib and spine bone model ( ventral surface )
• Costal cartilages
• Costochondral joints
• Rib angles
• Articular facets for vertebral bodies of ribs
• Pericardial sac relating to respiratory diaphragm
• Parietal pleura & sympathetic chain
• Anterior longitudinal ligament

donor 1 prone donor 2 supine

Prone

• Resect shoulder muscles, let fall to side
• Serratus post sup and inf
• Dissect and differentiate erector group
• Special attention to iliocostalis attachments at rib angles
• Expose rib angles as possible
• Expose and resect multifidus, transversospinalis
• Expose thoracic vertebrae, facet joints, ligaments as possible

Supine

• Anterior longitudinal ligament
• Thoracic discs
• Rib head movements and joints with discs
• Trabeculated nature of thoracic vertebral bodies
• Sympathetic chains

If and as possible:

• Heart / pericardial attachments
• Diaphragmatic attachments

Sunday, Oct. 2 – 7:00-10:00 PM EDT

Module 3: Lumbar spine

Concepts:

• The focused forces on the lumbar spine
• The lumbar facet joints and their allowed movements – Serge Gracovetsky‘s ‘spinal engine’
• Rotation between the girdles: how the lumbars transfer strain and power
• Disc herniations: common etiology and progression for nucleus and annulus
• Lumbopelvic stability reconsidered – what really makes a difference?

Structures:

• Multifidus muscle
• Levator costarum muscles
• Rotatores muscles
• Intercostal muscles
• Transversus abdominus muscle ( lateral & posterior view )
• Supraspinous ligament
• Interspinous ligament
• Psoas major muscle
• Respiratory diaphragm (crus)
• Intervertebral discs
• Bodies of vertebra
• Intertransverse ligament
• Radiate ligament of rib heads
• Facet joints
• Sacrum
• Coccyx
• Internal bone structure of bodies of vertebra
• Sacroiliac joint

donor 1 prone donor 2 supine

Prone

• Continue dissection from TLJ down
• Resect latissimus dorsi and first layer of TLF
• Intermediate TLF layer over posterior erectors
• Connection to lateral raphé, QL
• Lower erectors: blending the longissimus and iliocostalis
• Lumbar multifidus and inner layers of TLF to TPs
• Sacral fascia over the sacral multifidus (important)
• Posterior lumbars – SPs, TPs, mamillary processes – exposed as possible
• Coccyx exposed if possible

Supine

• Psoas complex
• Interaction with diaphragmatic crura
• Putting lumbopelvic stability together: anterior, posterior, and lateral support

About Todd Garcia: 

Todd Garcia is owner and director of Laboratories of Anatomical Enlightenment Inc. Todd specializes in human dissection, and has been teaching anatomy for 22 years. He has worked together with anatomy/physiology textbook publisher Benjamin Pearson, and Author, Thomas Myers in the creation of anatomy/physiology textbooks and DVD’s. As director and teacher at Laboratories of Anatomical Enlightenment Inc. Todd continues to teach human anatomy classes to students of more than 20 different schools ranging from entry level massage therapist to graduate students. For 7 years Todd taught human anatomy continuing education classes at the Anatomical Institute of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Todd’s dissection experience is in the range of 20,000 hours. His region of specialty is the cranium.

About Kaori Tani: 

Kaori Tani started her career in the health/fitness industry in 1985.  A strong advocate of continuing education, she has hosted and translated countless professional education events in her native country of Japan.  She was certified as a Rolfer in 2003 and became the first Gray Institute’s Fellow of Applied Functional Science in Asia in 2010.  Kaori is currently one of the leading professional education providers in Japan: teaching for TRX as a Senior Master Instructor, Dynamic Variable Resistance Training as a Master Instructor, Certified Functional Strength Coach as a Master Coach and the Gray Institute as a Course Instructor.  She has provided Japanese translation services for Tom Myers since 2008.

1日目：頚椎

コンセプト：

• 頸部におけるスタビリティとモビリティのユニークな均衡
• 「ベニヤ板」戦略：筋繊維の方向を交互に
• 動眼反射と後頭下筋群
• 頸部靭帯複合体
• 環椎後頭関節の動き、環軸関節の動き
• 頚椎小関節のダイナミクス：回旋、側屈、屈曲、伸展
• 前面からの頚椎のサポート
• 頚椎への安全（危険）なローディング：水を搬ぶvs.ムチ打ち

解剖する身体構造：ドナー１は伏臥位ドナー２は仰臥位

伏臥位

• 頸部後面から第2胸椎までの皮膚の切除
• 僧帽筋：分割と切除（可能であれば項靭帯を残す）
• 頭板状筋と頸板状筋：分割と切除
• 半棘筋、最長筋、腸肋筋の分化と切除
• 多裂筋：分割と切除
• 後頭下筋群、筋硬膜のブリッジ
• A-A （環軸関節）とO-A （環椎後頭関節）の動き
• 頸部の靭帯、横突起間と棘上

仰臥位

• 原位置の斜角筋群
• 頭長筋と頸長筋
• 外側頭直筋と前頭直筋

2日目：胸椎

コンセプト：

• 「肋骨バスケット」胸椎における正常な動き
• 姿勢の代償における胸郭：
  • 骨盤と頭の間：回旋と側屈
  • 左右の肩の間：「クロス」のスタビリティ
  • 対側の四肢間：スポーツのスタビリティ
• 上部肋骨：頚胸接合部のスタビリティ
• 中部肋骨：中背ヒンジ
• 下部肋骨：回旋
• 胸腰接合部：第12胸椎と第1腰椎、身体の「ユニバーサル関節」
• 腰椎骨盤のスタビリティにおける肋骨の位置の役割：トップダウンの影響

解剖する身体構造：ドナー１は伏臥位ドナー２は仰臥位

伏臥位

• 肩の筋肉群の切除
• 上後鋸筋と下後鋸筋
• 脊柱起立筋群の解剖と分化
• 腸肋筋の肋骨角への付着部に注目
• 可能であれば肋骨角を露呈する
• 多裂筋、横突棘筋の露呈と切除
• 可能な限り胸椎、小関節、靭帯を露呈

仰臥位

• 前縦靭帯
• 胸椎円板
• 肋骨頭の動きと円板を含む関節の動き
• 胸椎体の骨梁的性質
• 交感神経チェーン
• もし可能であれば：
  • 心臓・心臓周囲の付着部
  • 横隔膜の付着部

3日目：腰椎

コンセプト：

• 腰椎にフォーカスされた力
• 腰椎小関節と可能な動き：Gravetskyの「スパイナルエンジン」
• 帯間の回旋：いかに腰椎がストレスとパワーを伝達するのか
• 円板ヘルニア化：核と線維輪のよくある病因学と進行
• 腰椎骨盤スタビリティ再考：何が実際に違いを生み出すのか？

解剖する身体構造：ドナー１は伏臥位ドナー２は仰臥位

伏臥位

• 胸腰接合部から下に向かっての解剖を続ける
• 広背筋と胸腰筋膜の最初の層を切除
• 後部脊柱起立筋群をカバーする胸腰筋膜中間層
• 外側縫線へのコネクション、腰方形筋
• 下部起立筋：最長筋と腸肋筋の混合
• 腰部多裂筋と胸腰筋膜内側層から横突起
• 仙骨多裂筋をカバーする仙骨ファシア（重要）
• 腰椎後部　棘突起、横突起、乳頭突起：可能な限り露呈
• もし可能であれば尾骨を露呈

仰臥位

• 腰筋複合体
• 横隔膜脚とのインターアクション
• 腰椎骨盤のスタビリティをまとめる：前、後、側方のサポート

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