The interdigital ligaments of the lower cervical and upper thoracic spine can cause acute and chronic pain that occurs after their overload. It is believed that this pain causes bursitis.
Paget's disease is a rare cause of back pain, often diagnosed with unconstrained radiography performed for other purposes or when the patient finds a swelling of long bones.
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISG) is a disease of the ligamentous apparatus of the spine. The cause of DISG is unknown. Sign of the disease is a continuous ossification of ligamentous structures of the spine, which extends at least three vertebral spaces.
Multiple myeloma is a rare cause of back pain. Which is often incorrectly diagnosed in the initial stage. It is a unique condition that can cause pain through several mechanisms in aggregate or separately.
The costal-vertebral joint is the true joint that can be affected by osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, Reiter's syndrome, and especially ankylosing spondylitis.
Osteoporosis is a systemic metabolic disease of the skeleton, which is characterized by a decrease in bone mass and a disturbance in the microarchitectonics of bone tissue, which in turn leads to bone fragility and a tendency to fracture (WHO, 1994).
Spinal cord can develop in the parenchyma of the spinal cord (intramedullary), directly damaging the tissues, or outside the spinal cord (extramedullary), causing compression of the spinal cord and roots.
Spinal subdural and epidural abscess is an accumulation of pus in the subdural or epidural space that causes mechanical compression of the spinal cord.
Compression fracture of the thoracic vertebrae is one of the most common causes of pain in the thoracic spine. Compression fracture of the spine is often a consequence of osteoporosis, but it can also occur as a result of a spinal injury like "acceleration-inhibition."
As already mentioned, deformity of the spine is often one of the symptoms of diseases of other organs and systems. We found it necessary to describe in this section some of these diseases, not so much focusing on the characteristics of the vertebral syndrome as on insufficiently known facts concerning the nosological forms themselves.