Arching the back when facet joints are open can stress the pars bone, leading to fractures and spinal shifts. — Whalespan
Arching the back when facet joints are open can stress the pars bone, leading to fractures and spinal shifts.
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“when you Arch Back one pushes hard on the other like shingles on a roof that stresses a bone called the pars bone and uh gymnasts for example get a very typical fracture pattern called a spond alol lth thesis which is a fracture of that bone and then the spine shifts a little bit at that joint”