Anatom3DVertebral column
Columna vertebralis · Páteř
Skeleton
Looks like
Thirty-three bones in an S-curve, with shock-absorbing discs between them.
What it does
Holds the body up, allows movement and protects the spinal cord.
Keeping it well
Move often, change position, build strength. Height loss and a stooping back suggest thin bones.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Achondroplasia
- Acromegaly
- Axial spondyloarthritis
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Gout
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Herniated disc
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Kyphosis and Scheuermann's disease
- Lyme disease
- Marfan syndrome & connective tissue disorders
- Multiple myeloma
- Neck pain and cervical spondylosis
- Non-specific low back pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoma
- Sciatica
- Scoliosis
- Spina bifida & neural tube defects
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal stenosis
- Spondylolisthesis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporomandibular joint disorder
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency