Inflammatory spine diseases

Bekhterev’s disease is one of the most common chronic inflammatory rheumatoid diseases. The inflammatory processes occur mainly in the spinal column and its joints. However, especially in the later course of the disease, they are also found in other joints and organs throughout the body.

The inflammations can ultimately lead to stiffening of the spine with corresponding movement restrictions. In the clinical picture of spondylodiscitis, an inflammation of a vertebral body and the adjacent intervertebral disc is triggered by bacteria. By far the most common pathogen causing the infection is the so-called Staphylococcus aureus. A distinction is made between the bacteria in the vertebral body and the intervertebral disc settling in the bloodstream in the context of blood poisoning and the inflammation caused by the physician’s own fault through an intervention in the spinal column

Congenital spine diseases

Baastrup’s disease is a pain syndrome that frequently occurs in the lumbar spine area and is caused by the vertebrae’ spinous processes touching each other. The approach of the spinous processes leads to irritation of the surrounding muscles and ligaments. In addition, new bone, cartilage and joint formation occurs at the contact points of the spinous processes.

Klippel-Feil syndrome is one of the rare congenital spinal diseases. Mainly in the area of the cervical spine it comes to adhesions. The syndrome can, however, be accompanied by further malformations.

The severity of the syndrome is extremely variable and can be completely harmless and hardly visible, or it can be accompanied by severe malformations. The so-called KiSS syndrome (head joint-induced symmetry disorder) is a malposition of the two uppermost vertebrae.These vertebrae connect the head with the spine. This is why the syndrome leads to a bad posture. The KiSS syndrome is not recognized by orthodox medicine because of the lack of evidence for the existence of the syndrome. Likewise, the statutory health insurance does not recognize the KiSS syndrome, so that the costs for therapy must be paid privately.