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The multifidus muscles are deep, intrinsic muscle of the spine. Deep in that it has overlying musculature, intrinsic in that they originate and insert to the spine. The multifidi, along with the rotatores and semispinalis are collective referred to as the transversospinalis muscles given that they orriginate from the transverse processes of the spine & insert on the spinous processes of the spine. The multifidi themselves only span about 2-3 vertebral segments (bones in your back). The transversospinalis group lays deep to the larger erector spinae, which is a midline intrinsic back muscle group.

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