From the March 2023 issue of Weill Cornell Medicine's Women's Health Advisor (WHA)
Exercises and Strategies for Preventing Dowager’s Hump
Adjust your posture and strengthen your upper back muscles to prevent an abnormal curvature of the spine.
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You’ve probably seen older women who appear to be bent forward with a hump on their backs as they walk through the grocery store or down the street. “Hyperkyphosis” is the medical term for this outward curvature of the spine in the upper back; the common colloquial term for it is “Dowager’s hump.” “Hyperkyphosis usually […]