Rowing while standing

“Rowing standing up” Stand with your knees slightly bent, hip-wide. Actively straighten your upper body by pointing your sternum upwards and pulling your shoulder blades backwards/downwards. Both arms are stretched forward at shoulder level. Now pull your elbows back as far as possible at shoulder level. The hands continue to point forward. The shoulder blades … Rowing while standing

Rowing standing up with the Theraband

“Rowing standing up” Stand with your knees slightly bent, hip-wide. Fix a theraband around a door- window handle. Pull both ends backwards at shoulder height as if you were rowing. Your upper body will actively straighten up by lifting your sternum and pulling your shoulders backwards/downwards. Perform two sets of 15 repetitions each. Continue with … Rowing standing up with the Theraband

Hyperextension Exercise for Thoracic Spine Diseases

Hyperextension lying: Go into the prone position. Your gaze is constantly directed downwards and your toes keep contact with the floor. Keep both arms in the air with bent elbows parallel to the floor. Now pull your elbows towards your upper body and straighten your upper body. The feet remain on the floor and the … Hyperextension Exercise for Thoracic Spine Diseases

Exercises against a hunchback from spine malposition

A hunchback is a false position or malposition of the spine. The thoracic spine is bent too much, so that it arches backwards. Often this also changes the position of our lumbar spine. Here we usually find an increased hollow back. In technical terminology, increased flexion is referred to as increased kyphosis and hollow back … Exercises against a hunchback from spine malposition

Possible causes | Exercises against a hunchback from spine malposition

Possible causes A hunchback can be caused by changes in the vertebrae due to certain diseases such as osteoporosis, Bechterew’s disease or Scheuermann’s disease, but also long-term bad posture in everyday life or heavy loads such as heavy lifting in front of the body can promote a hunchback. This leads to a change in the … Possible causes | Exercises against a hunchback from spine malposition

Physiotherapy for a hunchback

A hunchback describes a back that is strongly arched backwards. The human spine consists of the cervical spine, thoracic spine and lumbar spine. Each of these sections has its own natural curvature. The cervical and lumbar spine naturally curves slightly forward (lordosis) and the thoracic spine curves slightly backward (kyphosis). A hunchback is present as … Physiotherapy for a hunchback

Further therapeutic measures | Physiotherapy for a hunchback

Further therapeutic measures If the hunchback is more pronounced, so-called orthoses, i.e. corsets, provide relief and straightening of the spine. This is often used for children in the growth phase. If the hunchback is so pronounced that conservative measures are no longer sufficient, surgery is also performed. In physiotherapy, in addition to strengthening and stretching, … Further therapeutic measures | Physiotherapy for a hunchback

Hunchback

Definition A hunchback (lat. : hyperkyphosis, gibbus) is a too strong curvature of the thoracic spine to the back. In colloquial language, this is also called a “hump”. Naturally, there is always a backward convex curvature of the thoracic spine (physiological kyphosis). If the spinal column in the thoracic spine area is curved by more … Hunchback

Special shapes of the hunchback | Hunchback

Special shapes of the hunchback Scheuermann’s disease (adolescent kyphosis): Due to a disorder of ossification, the front and back of the vertebral bodies in the thoracic region grow unevenly, which leads to the development of a rounded back. This disorder affects adolescents, with boys being affected twice as often. Bekhterev’s disease (ankylosing spondylitis): A chronic, … Special shapes of the hunchback | Hunchback