What Classifies as a Spinal Disorder?

The following is a list of spinal disorders that was taken from the WHO Technical report series 919, 2003.

SPECIFIC (15-20%)

Congenital
- Interspinous pseudarthrosis
- Scoliosis
- Spina bifida
- Spondylolisthesis
- Vertebral epiphysitis
Degenerative
- Spinal stenosis
- Spondylolisthesis
Infectious
- Epidural abscess
- Osteomyelitis
- Bacterial
- Tuberculosis (Pott disease)
- Other infections
- Paraspinous abscess
- Septic arthritis
- Septic discitis
- Inflammatory
Arthritides
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- Psoriatic spondylitis (sacroiliitis)
- Reiter syndrome
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Seronegative spondyloarthropathy
Fibrosis secondary to inflammation
- Arachnoiditis
- Epineural fibrosis
- Intraneural fibrosis
Inflammation of nerve roots
- Neuritis
- Radiculitis
- Vertebral osteochondritis
Metabolic
- Osteochondrosis (Scheuerman disease)
- Osteomalacia
- Osteopenia
- Osteoporosis
- Osteitis fibrocystica
- Ochronotic spondylosis
- Paget’s disease
Neoplastic
- Bone tumour
- Benign
- Malignant
- Metastatic
- Intradural and epidural tumours
- Meningeal carcinomatosis
- Multiple myeloma
Traumatic
- Dislocation or subluxation
- Fractures of the vertebrae
- Intervertebral disc herniation

NON-SPECIFIC (80–85%)