"Hunger pain in the back" is not an official medical diagnosis, but a common description of a situation where pain occurs on an empty stomach, between meals, or at night and is felt not only in the abdomen but also in the back.
Osteophytes of the thoracic spine are bony growths along the edges of the vertebrae, facet joints, or in the area of ligament attachment, which usually form against the background of age-related and degenerative changes in the spine.
Thoracic myelopathy is a spinal cord disorder affecting the thoracic spine, affecting the pathways that control walking, leg strength, sensation in the trunk and legs, and bladder and bowel control.
Discitis is an inflammation of the intervertebral disc. In modern adult literature, this term is increasingly less considered as a completely isolated entity, as intervertebral disc infection often involves both the adjacent endplates and the vertebral bodies.
Intervertebral disc degeneration is an age-related and biomechanical process in which the disc gradually loses water, proteoglycans, elasticity, and the ability to evenly distribute loads.
Degenerative-dystrophic changes in the thoracic spine are not one separate disease, but a collective description of age-related and load-related changes in the intervertebral discs, endplates, facet joints, ligaments, and vertebral bodies of the thoracic spine.
Lumbar spinal instability is a clinical and biomechanical condition in which the lumbar spine loses the ability to maintain normal vertebral relationships under physiological load without pain, progressive displacement, deformation, or threat to neural structures.
Cervical spine instability is a condition in which one or more cervical motion segments lose the ability to maintain normal anatomical relationships and a safe range of motion under normal physiological loads.
