Abstract
Radiological and physical examination were performed to assess deformities of the spinal posture and back pain in women beyond 65 years of age.
Following results were obtained: 1, lordotic-round back was most frequent in the spinal posture; 2, in their seventies compression fractures of vertebra bodies were 18.1% of whole thoracic vertebrae and were 45.9% of whole lumbar vertebrae. In their nineties those percentage increased up to 31.5% in thoracic vertebrae and 46.1% in lumbar vertebrae; 3, flat vertebrae were frequent from the 8th to 10th thoracic vertebra, wedge vertebrae from the 11th thoracic vertebra to the third lumbar vertebra and fish vertebra from the second to third lumbar vertebra; 4, in acute stage back pain is felt in whole spinal region and in the lateral part of the thoracic and abdominal region, but in chronic stage patients complain of a localized pain in the insertion part of the lumbo-sacral muscles.
