Doctors often treat kyphosis in older adults with a combination of physical therapy, bracing, and medications. The spine’s natural upper-back curve, called the thoracic kyphotic curve ...

Kyphosis is an abnormal curvature of the spine. You might have heard more of lordosis. Lordosis is also commonly called sway back, where you have an abnormal curvature in the lower part of your ...

The degree of facial kyphosis is described in terms of klinorhynchy (more ventral orientation) versus airorhynchy (more dorsal orientation). Morphospace - a quantitative and/or graphical ...

A feature film sponsored by NYU Langone Orthopedics, On the Shoulders of Giants: The History of NYU Langone Orthopedics, has been chosen to screen in the 23rd Tribeca Festival as an official ...

Multiple vertebral fractures can cause loss of height, dorsal kyphosis, and cervical lordosis. Compression fractures of the spine can be mistaken for bone metastases in men with prostate cancer.

Studies concerning pain management following selective dorsal rhizotomy have found that ... pelvic obliquity, kyphosis, lordosis, and contractures (Bleck, 1987). These deformities may lead to ...

Poor posture can also weaken or damage hip flexor muscles. Walking with a slouched posture or having a condition like kyphosis (a rounded spine) or lordosis (curved lower spine) can put extra ...

The scientists then reported that the animals, nicknamed Port and Starboard because their dorsal fins are bent in opposite directions, "exhibited a predilection for extracting and consuming the ...