title: A method for articulating and displaying the human spine.
abstract: An inexpensive and effective method for articulating a dry human spine is described. By constructing a Styrofoam spine tray, analysts can now accurately position and align each vertebra in correct anatomical order, allow for gaps because of missing vertebrae, and lay out the spine for documentation and photography. The spine tray provides analysts with a quick, easy, and professional quality method for aligning and orienting the human spine in the field and laboratory.
authors.affiliation: Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, 310 Worchester Avenue, Hickam AFB, HI 96853-5530, USA. robert.mann@jpac.pacom.mil
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Mann
mesh_terms: D018732:Forensic Anthropology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D011137:Polystyrenes; D013131:Spine / Q000033:anatomy & histology*
chemical_list: D011137:Polystyrenes; C024075:styrofoam