Scheuermann's disease

Scheuermann's disease

Scheuermann's disease is a growth disorder of the spine, which occurs in adolescence and which can lead to back pain.

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Scheuermann's disease
Synonyms
causes
symptoms

Synonyms

Scheuermann's disease, Scheuermann's disease, Scheuermann's disease, adolescent kyphosis, juvenile kyphosis, aseptic osteochondrosis, osteochondritis deformans juvenilis dorsi, juvenile osteochondrosis.

causes

During puberty there is an imbalance between the load and the load capacity of the spine, especially the thoracic spine (thoracic spine), probably associated with muscular asymmetries. There is damage to the edges of vertebral bodies of the spine at their growth zones. As a result, the affected vertebrae get a wedge shape and the so-called Schmorlschen Knötchen- these are nodes with disc material between the cover plates of the vertebrae. It can also come to a collapse of the vertebral body cover plates.

symptoms

Often, a "condition after Scheuermann's disease" is a chance finding in adulthood, because a fixation of the thoracic spine probably overloaded the lumbar spine and the cervical spine with their soft-tissue structures and cause discomfort. This, and directly from the changes in the thoracic spine, can cause neck tension, muscle tendon, back pain, flank pain and stiffness in the back.

But even in puberty it can cause back pain and neck tension in the affected adolescents. A burden can be the retention of the thoracic spine in the forward flexion (kyphosis) just for teenagers for aesthetic reasons.

The disease is named after the Danish orthopedist and radiologist dr. Holger W. Scheuermann (1877-1960), who described the disease around 1921. (Thorsten Fischer, Naturopath Osteopathy)