Anatom3DBack & spine
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Skeleton
Looks like
A chain of 33 vertebrae with discs between them, wrapped in long muscles, with the spinal cord inside.
What it does
Holds the body upright, allows bending and twisting, and protects the cord.
Keeping it well
Movement rather than rest, strength work, lifting with the legs. Back pain with numbness in the groin or loss of bladder control is an emergency.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Achondroplasia
- Acromegaly
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Axial spondyloarthritis
- B12 & folate deficiency
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Botulism
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Chiari malformation and syringomyelia
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Gout
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Herniated disc
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Kyphosis and Scheuermann's disease
- Lyme disease
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Marfan syndrome & connective tissue disorders
- Multiple myeloma
- Multiple sclerosis
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Neck pain and cervical spondylosis
- Neurofibromatosis type 1
- Neurogenic bladder
- Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
- Non-specific low back pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Poliomyelitis
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Sciatica
- Scoliosis
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Spina bifida & neural tube defects
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Spinal stenosis
- Spondylolisthesis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporomandibular joint disorder
- Tetanus
- Tick-borne encephalitis
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency