Anatom3DThoracic spine (T1–T12)
Vertebrae thoracicae · Hrudní páteř (Th1–Th12)
Skeleton
Looks like
Twelve vertebrae with a rib attached to each side, the least mobile part of the spine.
What it does
Anchors the rib cage and carries the weight of the upper body.
Keeping it well
Posture breaks and extension exercises; a stoop that grows with age suggests crushed vertebrae.
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Kyphosis and Scheuermann's disease
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Pleural effusion
- Pneumothorax
- Sarcoma
- Scoliosis
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency