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Wedge Fracture of the Spine Stages of Spine Deformity due to Osteoporosis Some women who hunch over are not just hunching, they have a spinal fracture that could be devastating to both your posture and your health. It's not just that we lean over and thus seem shorter, women can loose 2 to 8 inches of height as they age. Why? Two main reasons: Disk compression (the disks between your vertebra) and Osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a disease of compromised bone strength predisposing an individual to fractures. When the fractures is a compression of a vertebra then it forms a wedge in the spine you get exaggerated bending forward of the back the hump: dorsal kyphosis and the shortened waist and shrunken gut: lumbar lordosis, and there she shrinks! The disks between the vertebral bodies compress and thus exaggerate the two natural spinal curves, more shrinking. It's important to thus diagnose and fight off osteoprosis to preserve your spine: meanwhile posture actually helps as...