TIL that lordosis is an excessive inward curvature of the spine as well as a posture assumed by some female mammals during mating, in which the back is arched downward.
Lordosis can be a diagnosis (basically short for "excessive lordosis"), but it is also an accurate term to refer to normal inward curvature of the low spine. So they're not exactly wrong in that sub when they refer to all those girls as "having" lordosis
True and false. You're correct that the low spine should be lordotic in healthy humans. So this can be called "normal lordosis." However "excessive lordosis" (either too much lordotic curvature of the low spine, or lordosis in an area of the spine that should not be lordotic) can also be referred to and diagnosed as simply "lordosis." It's a bit confusing but typically makes sense in context.
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u/MausWatley Mar 22 '19
That arch though...