Sentences with phrase «neck lordosis»
The spine is rounded, called kyphosis until the upper part of the spine, the neck lordosis stretches.
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Lighter loads put less stress on the carrier and minimize all sorts of problems like changes in posture to the cranio - vertebral angle (neck) and spinal lordosis angle (small of the back).
While a healthy spine will have some degree of kyphosis and lordosis, ideally there is no lateral curvature at all; viewed from behind, the spine should appear relatively straight from neck to tailbone.
You see, the hyperextended curve in the neck will need to find compensation further down the spine and therefore, further lordosis of the lumbar spine will occur.
Overemphasized lordosis in the neck will trickle down to the thoracic and lumbar spine (Weingroff).
In upper crossed syndrome, exaggerated lordosis of the cervical spine caused by a shortening of the upper trapezius, levator scapulae, sternocleidomastoid and scalenes can compress the room available in the neck that the larynx requires in order to tilt freely.