The dedicated Native American Music Awards, which successfully proposed the Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, was launched in 1998 and continues to be held annually. The Native American Music Awards or N.A.M.A. was the first national awards program for Native American music in North America. The awards were born out of a need for greater recognition for Native American music initiatives and remains the largest professional membership based organization in the world.
When viewed from the side, an adult spine has a natural S-shaped curve. The neck (cervical) and low back (lumbar) regions have a slight concave curve, and the thoracic and sacral regions have a gentle convex curve (Fig.
Depictions of a skeleton with a straight spine and a spine with dextroscoliosis.. Dextroscoliosis refers to a spinal curvature in which the curve of the spine bows out to the patient's right. The body tends to side bend to the right. Most of the time, a dextroscoliosis occurs in the thoracic spine. X Ray of dextroscoliosos on top and levoscoliosis on the bottom.. A person's spine can have both a dextroscoliosis and levoscoliosis. In the x-ray image above, the thoracic spine (top part) shows a dextroscolosis) and the lumbar spine (bottom part) shows a levoscoliosis. Related: How Scoliosis Curves are Measured.