Identifier: lateralcurvature1916love (find matches)
Title: Lateral curvature of the spine and round shoulders
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Lovett, Robert W. (Robert Williamson), 1859-1924
Subjects: Spine Spine Spinal Curvatures
Publisher: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston's Sons & Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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cending degeneration of the lateral columns of thespinal cord. The growth of bones is often retarded, and muscularirritability and stiffness are noted with contractions. Scoliosis is anoccasional accompaniment. (c) Other nervous diseases, represented by a much smaller num-ber of cases accompanying lateral curvature, are multiple neuritis,meningitis, cerebrospinal meningitis, syringomyelia, pseudomuscularhypertrophy, locomotor ataxia, Friedreichs ataxia, tumors of thespinal cord, and obstetrical paralysis. A marked lateral deviation of the spine, extensively studied by the io8 ETIOLOGY Germans and termed by them Ischias Scoliotica,^ is a form withoutmuch rotation which accompanies the inflammatory affections of thelumbar region vaguely classed as lumbago and sciatica. It isfrequently found in arthritis of the spine and in acute and chronicsprains of the spine. A similar malposition is observed in hysteria- (Fig. 8i). Ananalogous deviation is found in disease of the sacro-iliac joint in
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Fig. 79—Severe Right Curve (see Fig.78) Due to Infantile Paralysis.Showing abdominal and thoracic con-struction on left. Pig. 80.—Same Case as Figs. 78 and79 Showing Deformity of Lower Rib.Induced by Pressure. which the lateral curve is induced by the instinctive effort to sparethe affected joint. (d) Empyema^ is followed by lateral curvature in certain cases,both without operation and after the operation for removal of a rib.The scar contraction seems to be the cause of the chief curve, which isalways to the right in left empyema and vice versa. Thfere are likelyto be compensating curves above and below the main curve, the 1 Stein: Zeitsch. f. orth. Chir., xxv, 1910, 479 (with literature).- Binswanger: Hysterical Scoliosis, Deutsch. med. Wochens., Vereins-beil., 1902, 5. ^ Walther: Zeitsch f. orth. Chir., 1910, x.xv, 401. OCCUPATIONAL SCOLIOSIS 109 height of the shoulders is generally very different and the hyper-trophy of the sound side of the chest is a marked feature (Fig. 82)

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