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Rotator muscles
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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Rotator muscles - mm. rotatores
Origin: transverse processes.
Insertion: outer surface of the base of the arch of the nearest superior vertebra
Innervation: from the posterior branches of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal nerves.
Diagnosis: see semispinalis muscle
Referred pain: Involvement of the deepest paravertebral rotator muscles causes pain in the midline of the back and referred pain to percussion of adjacent spinous processes.
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