Camptocormia (bent spine syndrome) is forward flexion of the spine seen with a variety of neurological, myopathic and psychiatric disorders that result in weakness of the spinal extensor muscles.
Conditions associated with camptocormia:
(1) limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
(2) fascio-scapulo-humeral dystrophy
(3) myotonic muscular dystrophy
(4) Steinert disease
(5) dermatomyositis
(6) polymyositis
(7) inclusion body myopathy
(8) hypothyroidism
(9) osteomalacia
(10) steroid or other drug-induced myopathy
(11) amyloidosis
(12) mitochondrial myopathy (carnitine palmityl-transferase deficiency, respiratory chain complex deficiency)
(13) psychogenic conversion disorder
(14) Parkinson's disease
(15) multisystem atrophy
(16) Alzheimer's disease
(17) motor neuron disease
(18) dystonia
(19) myasthenia
(20) chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
(21) paraneoplastic myopathy
(22) disc herniation
(23) arthritis
(24) spinal trauma
(25) idiopathic
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Specialty: Surgery, orthopedic
