quently so regarded [6, 7] . Souques in 1915 [8] originally used the term camptocormia. Rosanoff-Saloff provided a photographic record of Souques’ case study of a soldier’s bent back and his recovery. According to the English translation in Southard’s collection of shell shock cases [9] , this soldier was wounded 5 months previously by a bullet that entered near the scapula and emerged near the...

Camptocormia (bent spine syndrome, cyphose hystérique) is an abnormality characterized by severe forward flexion of the thoracolumbar spine which typically increases during walking or standing and completely disappears in supine position. Camptocormia can be due to central nervous system diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, multisystem atrophy, or Alzheimer’s disease, due to periphe...