What causes that stoop in old folk where their head and neck are permanently bent forward?
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I have what’s called Anklyosing Spondylitis (AS), It could be this. Anklyosing Spondylitis is a form of rheumatoid arthritis that directly affects the spinal column. AS is an autoimmune disorder which essentially means that your immune system is on autopilot without an off switch; it doesn’t stop when it rids the body of all the “baddies”.
What this means is that it keeps working overtime and begins to attack the good things as well, specifically in the case of (AS) it attacks the spine and slowly fuses vertebrae. This eventually leaves the individual looking like a human sized question mark if the progression isn’t slowed. It results in a highly inflexible spine.
We have tools at our disposal now that weren’t available to older generations as well so some of these issues are much better for us to deal with than generations older than us.
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