Denver Broncos rookie quarterback Bo Nix made a surprising revelation on Monday: he played through three fractured transverse processes in ... from both sides of the vertebrae.

Your back is made up of a stack of bones called vertebrae. Those vertebrae are ... and allowing you to bend and twist your back. Transverse processes serve as attachment points for some of ...

The transverse process is a small bone on the outside of the back vertebrae. According to Archer ... also fractured two transverse processes earlier this season. He missed one game. • ...

The muscles of the lower back help stabilize, rotate, flex, and extend the spinal column, which is a bony tower of 24 vertebrae that ... are the cervical (neck), thoracic (abdomen,) lumbar ...