The cervical spine is the top of the backbone. It normally has a slight curve to it. Cervical kyphosis (SUR-vih-kull kye-FOE-sis) is when the top of the spine curves in the opposite direction than ...
Source: Focus Medica. An abnormality of the spine causing excessive curvature of the upper back. This causes pain and stiffness. Kyphosis generally occurs in old age but is sometimes seen in ...
Shaye Armour, from Greenock, has congenital kyphosis scoliosis, a condition which causes his spine to bend forward. The 13-year-old was being treated at Edinburgh's RHCYP under the care of ...
G. Thomas Ruiz, MD “In your seventies and eighties [there] may be hip fractures, compression of the spine — kyphosis —humpback, and rib fractures. If an 80-year-old breaks a hip, the hip ...