Scheuermann’s Disease –Apprentice’s Spine

Abstract

An uncommon case of Scheuermann’s Disease (apprentice’s spine) is being reported for two simple reasons (1) to show that it is a self limiting disease which needs only proper observation, extension exercises & extension spinal brace, (2) it becomes a diagnostic riddle when osteolytic lesion is seen in epiphyseal plates of adjacent vertebral bodies in an adolescent. Hence it stressed the need to publish this condition not only for its rarity but also for its diagnostic puzzle to differentiate it from other conditions.

Keywords

• Idiopathic kyphosis
• Adolescent kyphosis
• Scheuermann’s Disease
• Apprentice’s spine