Talk:Lordosis

information needed for what is anatomical and what is a pathological condition
Terms needs to be clarified. Loss of lumbar lordosis is a term that needs to be added. --Abhijeet Safai (talk) 05:18, 28 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I edited it today to try to improve this. -Gnuish (talk) 22:18, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

hyperlordosis is not the same as sway-back
A sway-back posture is characterised by the posterior displacement of the rib cage in comparison to the pelvis. It looks like the person has a hyperextension of the natural lordosis, however it is not necessarily the case. Most sway-back exhibit a posteriorly tilted pelvis and their lumbar is usually flat (too flexed) and not hyper lordotic (too extended). The point is, these are too different things. For references see "Muscles, testing and function, 4th edition, by Florence Peterson Kendall. ed. John Butler) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.50.243.52 (talk) 07:55, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
 * OK; deleted sway-back in the list of synonyms. Klbrain (talk) 08:34, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Looking at this further, I've also removed the redirect from swayback and commenced a new page there discussing this condition. Klbrain (talk) 08:53, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Are we human, or are we dancer ?
Why are the paragraphs about hyperlordoses using 'Dancer' instead of 'Patient' or 'Individual' ? Seems like a literal copy from some book about sport-injuries. This is generally a confusing writing style, and possible copyright violation. Can somebody rework this. --79.225.125.105 (talk) 13:58, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I completely agree. --Gnuish (talk) 22:26, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I also agree, additionally it's repeated throughout the article, specifying poor dance floor as being the culprit for the condition. Azotochtli (talk) 14:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, that caught me up too, as if the primary demographic for these conditions is the dancer. Probably the typical patient is rather the Western office worker. Eyleron (talk) 18:30, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Lordosis and Hyperlordosis might need to be separate articles?

 * the article seems to have information that could go in to two article...IMO--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:52, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
 * ?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:01, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I tried to improve this today. --Gnuish (talk) 22:26, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep united. An introduction to lordosis is useful in explaining hyperlordosis, and the physiology of lordosis is better udnerstood in relation to hyperlordosis. I don't think we should split them. Mikael Häggström (talk) 12:27, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Hypolordosis
Why is this all about hyperlordosis? The back isn't always excessively curved. It can be normally curved, or insufficiently curved. Where's the advice to increase one's curve? Correctrix (talk) 05:57, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Kyphosis Description Contradictory
the wikipedia page on "Lordosis” the first paragraph describes "kyphosis" as: “The normal outward (convex) curvature in the thoracic and sacral regions”. yet the the hyperlink in that paragraph to “kyphosis”, the first sentence describes "kyphosis": “is an abnormally excessive convex curvature of the spine as it occurs in the thoracic and sacral regions”. these descriptions of "kyphosis" are directly contradictory and cannot coexist. Waywardtom (talk) 19:35, 4 September 2018 (UTC)


 * They aren't exactly contradictory. The words lordosis and kyphosis sometimes simply refer to directions of curvature (e.g. "Maintaining normal lordosis is important for healthy posture"), while other times the same words are used to indicate problems (e.g. "You have lordosis, something needs to be done about it"). I do agree that this inconsistency is a problem; it's legitimately confusing because the context is often not very helpful. I don't know a good way to fix the problem, other than interrupting with "Wait! What do you mean?" any time someone uses these words. I could easily decree a change of vocabulary myself, but unless every teacher and every text in every field suddenly agreed with me (including doctors, trainers in multiple unrelated sports, physiotherapists, dance instructors, veterinarians, and horse trainers), I'd just be making the confusion worse. TooManyFingers (talk) 16:02, 1 September 2023 (UTC)