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Loss of height
This means to get shorter. For example, older individuals with osteoporosis can lose height via vertebral compression fractures.
Dr. Dean Giannone reviewed this
27 year experience in Internal Medicine
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Loss of height?
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A 45-year old asked:
Loss of height at 20 years old? Is that possible?
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A 35-year old asked:
Can you have a loss of height from heavy weight lifting?
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A 47-year old asked:
What causes you to have a loss of height when you have osteoporosis?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Does extreme weight lifting causes increased loss of height in elderly age?
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A 58-year old female asked:
What do you do for an anterrior wedge compression fx.L1 vertebral body with 50% loss of height, 30% superrior endplate retropulsion dextroscoliosis ?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Does loss of height (1 inch) indicate that my spine is becoming more compress? Used to do a lot of weightlifting, lumbar and lower feel compressed
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A 31-year old male asked:
Mri says Disc t3-4 through t8-9 show loss of height. Intervertebral discs t7-8 and t8-9 mild signal changes. Mild anterior wedging of t7, t8. Meaning?
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A 24-year old female asked:
How long does it take a minor uncomplicated no loss of height vertebral end plate fracture to heal?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Can loss of height be due to loss of energy resiliency in the disc spaces. Or loss of water, high blood sugar, loss muscle spasticity after psych meds?
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A 57-year old female asked:
I have disc degeneration, loss of height, protrusion, spondylosis, disc bulge, mild stenosis on neck and lumbar. Can I use an inversion table?
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A 25-year old male asked:
What can cause loss of disc height in spine?
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A 51-year old female asked:
What does desiccation of the disc without loss of disc height mean?
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A 34-year old male asked:
Narrowing of the disk space at the L4 5 and L5 s1, loss of disc height, how can we make it fixed?
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A 58-year old female asked:
There's grade 2 anterolisthesis of L5 on s1 with severe loss of disk height. Moderate loss of disk height at l3-4 and l4-5. Pars defects l5. Needsurg?
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A 49-year old male asked:
Xray: When they say "loss of bone height" and or "demineralization", do they mean bone loss?
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A 49-year old female asked:
Had a laminectomy in 1988 at l5/s1. In 1991 X-ray revealed curvature at 3/4 and 5. Loss of disc height at l5/s1. Is this why I can't put on weight?
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A 46-year old male asked about a 46-year old male:
Mri test shows loss of spinal height & signal spinal stenosis narrowing of spinal canal diffused disc bluge in contact with thecal sac neural formina narrowed bilatery what treatment do you recommend?
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A 30-year old female asked:
MRI results for spinal lumbar.Is it common to have mild/moderate facet osteoarthritis?small posterior disc protrusion mild loss of disc height?im 30!!
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A 44-year old male asked:
Had lumbar MRI for acute butt pain. Says " loss of disc height seen at the l4/5 and l5/s1 levels. Degenerative changes of the sacroiliac joints.
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A 41-year old female asked:
CT scan of pelvis- L5/S1 degenerative disc disease with loss of disc height, vacuum phenomena, endplate sclerosis and anterior bridging osteophytes. I have tremendous back pain, time to see a back specialist?
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A 24-year old female asked:
What does loss of intervertebral disc height and right sided broad -based disc bulge mean? thankyou.
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A 52-year old female asked:
Slight loss of disc space height and osteophyte formation seen at several levels greatest at t3/t4 -t6/t7 sm schmorls nodes are noted at these levels?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Bulging of l5/s1 combined w loss of disc space height causing moderate bilateral neural foraminal stenosis slight compression of L5 nerve roots?
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A 20-year old female asked:
Mild loss of disc space height L5-S1. 20 years old what could be causes of this and what is a non surgical treatment? I went to the doc 3 times being told it was a sprain before a X-ray. Im going to be referred to a spine specialist but wanted to ask
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A 46-year old female asked:
I got a CT scan of my neck at the ER, this is part of the results, what does this mean? multilevel disc dessication, moderate to severe loss of disc space height, disc osteophyte complex and facet hypertrophy most prominent at the C5 - C6 level?
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A 25-year old male asked:
What can explain loss of one inch in height? Checked one year later and shorter height even with shoes. Body feels down
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A 57-year old female asked:
Low back pain disc disease. Sig.Curve in spine w/ slippage. Can t stand straight. Height loss of 4". Some numb& ting legs, feet.Fear surg outcome. Idea?
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A 25-year old male asked:
I have heard that ritalin (methylphenidate) causes height loss. Do otherpsychiatric drugs cause height loss?
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A 19-year old female asked:
I am 19 my height is 4.6 and my weight is 47 how can I increase my height and loss my weight plzz tell me a height growth tips plzzzz?
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