AUDITIONS FOR THE NUTCRACKER--August 27thThe 14th Annual Space Coast Ballet Company's The Nutcracker will be held at the King Center on Saturday, December 3.
The lowest part of the spine is called the lumbar spine. This area usually has 5 vertebrae. However, sometimes people are born with 6 vertebrae in the lumbar region. The base of your spine (called the sacrum) is a group of specialized vertebrae that connects the spine to the pelvis. When one of the bones forms as a vertebra rather than part of the sacrum, it is called a transitional (or sixth) vertebra.
Back pain diagnosis often includes the name of the part of the spine that is involved in causing the pain. Learn about the parts of the spine. The spine is made of 24 individual vertebrae, that go from the skull to the sacrum. The sacrum bone - which is really 5 bones that begin to fuse at about age one, with the fusion complete approximately by age 30 - plus the coccyx complete the spine at the bottom. (The coccyx is your tailbone, and is the very last bone of the spine.) The spine connects to the ribs and pelvis to make the trunk or core.