The human spine: Configuration, development and pathological tendencies in the rhythmic system’s solid foundation

By: Markus Sommer, Georg Soldner
Original title: Die menschliche Wirbelsäule. Gestalt, Bildung und Erkrankungstendenzen der festen Grundlage des Rhythmischen Systems. Der Merkurstab 2003;56(5):260-269.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14271/DMS-18353-DE
This translation is published with the kind permission of the journal Der Merkurstab.

DM English issue 2004

Abstract

The human spine is—next to lung and heart—considered to be the third organ of the human rhythmic system. Its embryonic development clearly shows a relationship to the individual nature, the I, of the human being. Spinal conditions such as herniated nucleus pulposus in adults are considered in the light of vertebral-column developmental dynamics; the equilibrium between buoyancy and gravity, powers of light and substantiality, is seen as determining spinal development and health. At substance level, the corresponding polarity is between phosphorus and calcium, in dynamic terms between lordotic areas of high spinal mobility on the one hand and kyphosis on the other, which may also lead to fusion of vertebrae.

Keywords: VertebralColumn, Rhythmic System, Notochord, Intervertebral Disk, Herniated nucleus pulposus, Osteochrondrosis, Osteoporosis, Calcium phosphate, Calcium carbonate, Scheuermann’s disease, Lumbosacral transition, Craniocervical transition, Cervicogenic vertigo

Citation: Sommer, M., & Soldner, G. (2004). The human spine: Configuration, development and pathological tendencies in the rhythmic system’s solid foundation. Der Merkurstab, 2004(English issue), 10–19.