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Gail A. Greendale, MD, Anna McDivit, BS, Annie Carpenter, MS, Leanne Seeger, MD and Mei-Hua Huang, DrPH

The authors are with the School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Gail A. Greendale, MD, UCLA School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, 10945 Le Conte Ave, Suite 2339, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1687 (e-mail: ggreenda@mednet.ucla.edu).

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	INTRODUCTION

 
The thoracic region of the spine is normally kyphotic, or anteriorly concave. Hyperkyphosis, colloquially called "dowager’s hump," refers to excessive kyphotic curvature; however, there is no criterion standard, nor are there any outcome-based definitions of the condition. A kyphosis angle 40°—the 95th percentile value for young adults—is currently used to define hyperkyphosis.^1,2

Hyperkyphosis may be associated with physical and emotional limitations^3–11 and may have multiple precipitants.^4,12–14 Yoga could be an optimal intervention for hyperkyphosis in that it may improve physical and emotional functioning as well as combat some of the underlying muscular and biomechanical causes. We conducted a single-arm, nonmasked . . . [Full Text]

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