Your middle-aged client has slouched shoulders, very prominent vertebral bones, and an abnormal condition of the vertebral column characterized by increased convexity in the thoracic spine when viewed from the side. From what is your client suffering?
1. scoliosis
2. muscular dystrophy
3. Parkinson's disease
4. kyphosis
ANS: 4
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