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Muscles-rotators - mm. Rotatores
Beginning: transverse processes.
Attachment: the outer surface of the base of the arch of the nearest upper vertebra
Innervation: from the posterior branches of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal nerves.
Diagnosis: see semi-partic muscle
Reflected pain: Involving the deepest of the invertebral muscles of the rotator causes pain along the middle line of the back and reflected pain during percussion of adjacent spinous processes.
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