Fantasy of Knowledge

Bent with age? It is a camptocormia

We've all met a day a little old woman strolling with a cane, his chin against the sternum, incapable of fixing his interlocutor without turning on its side. What suffering does? From camptocormia or progressive lumbar kyphosis.

Camptocormia, a disease of age surge

The camptocormia is one of the current diseases of greatest concern to the extent that, given the tremendous increase in life expectancy, it multiplies the number of its victims. But first where is it and why this strange name? Etymologically, the term comes from the Greek words "Kamptein" which means bow and "Kormos" trunk. It was used for the first time about a strange epidemic that struck the soldiers of the War of 14-18. Having lived long in position leaning forward into the trenches, some Poilus found themselves unable to put right by leaving the front line due to excessive melting of the erector muscles of the column spine. Over the years, we put the same diagnosis for other people forced to stand frequently bending, including tile and parquet layers. In some Asian countries, even took the camptocormia squarely face endemic, especially among women working in rice fields.