Today's Daily Tip Help for Protruding Vertebrae I would love
your ideas and insights into working with someone whose lumbar
vertebrae stick out like the scales on a stegosaurus's back (she
calls them her "dinosaur spine"). Backbends are challenging, as
is reaching up for her feet when she is supine on the floor.
Read Annie Carpenter's response: It is truly amazing how
different we all are! Each of us has an individual expression of
the human body, which is to be celebrated and yet is, at times,
frustrating. There are many variations of the lumbar spine, or
lower back, which usually consists of five thick vertebrae just
above the sacrum of the pelvis. Typically, this section of the
spine curves anteriorly, or in toward the front of the body.
Your student may have a flattening or a reversal of this curve,
creating the pressure she feels and a more visible bony
presence. Or she may simply have a pronounced shape to the
spinous processes, which are the parts of each vertebra that
point backward and are often palp