Development of thoracic spine kyphosis and lumbar spine lordosis in the growing child from birth to adulthood: protocol for a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Thoracic kyphosis, a posterior curvature of the thoracic spine and lumbar lordosis, an anterior curvature of the lumbar spine, are essential components of spinal alignment that facilitate a biomechanically efficient upright stance. Understanding the normal growth of the spine and its constituents, especially during periods of rapid growth, is important as deviations from normal growth are thought to be initiating factors of spinal conditions such as scoliosis. While in the coronal plane the spine is straight, there is variability in the reported normative values of sagittal spinal shape, reported in the paediatric population. This variability may well represent the range of normality allowing for population differences of ethnicity and sex, but could also be attributed to differing imaging

SUBMITTER: Al-Allaf O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12382527 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature