What Medical Condition?

[barry1010]

My elderly neighbour has just phoned a bit confused.  She has been told the problems she has standing up straight, weakness in her left side and difficulty walking are caused by a problem in her neck.

All she can remember is that it begins with a sch or sc sound.

She is bent double, needs a walker.  

Any ideas?  

[calmck]

Scoliosis bent spine

[scorpiojo]

Scoliosis?

[barry1010]

Thanks both.  

[jno]

has she been offering her queendom for a horse, by any chance?

[barry1010]

What do you mean, Jno?

[LadyCG]

Scoliosis sounds correct to me.

[barry1010]

It came on very suddenly

[JinnyJoan]

like Anybody who has Scoliosis - has had it all her life.  from she was a little kid.

[jno]

sorry, barry, I was thinking of Richard III, who is said to have offered his kingdom for a horse: though long supposed to have been a hunchback, it was found when his skeleton recovered that he'd had scoliosis - so twisted rather than hunched.

[wolf63]

Could it be Cervical spondylosis?

[barry1010]

Don't think so, Wolf, she has no pain at all, apart from her bottom through being so immobile.

She is bent straight over, no indication of a twisted spine.